Re:Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
by ordinaryperson on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:46AM
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> I don't understand the run for GraphQL everywhere, does everybody query sparse and deep nested data on their website?
Exactly. Forced to use GraphQL at work for an internal-only API and what a nightmare - what would be a nice, one-line REST API query can take hundreds of lines (not exaggerating).
If you're serving a public-facing API at massive scale, yes, GraphQL will save you bandwidth. If not, what a pain in the *. For most engineers it's a solution in search of a problem.
Exactly. Forced to use GraphQL at work for an internal-only API and what a nightmare - what would be a nice, one-line REST API query can take hundreds of lines (not exaggerating).
If you're serving a public-facing API at massive scale, yes, GraphQL will save you bandwidth. If not, what a pain in the *. For most engineers it's a solution in search of a problem.