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Re:Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo by namelosw on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:10AM (#19718243)
I want to say Any sufficiently complicated REST API contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of GraphQL API.

Although complex, GraphQL (done right) is much easier than REST (done right).

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Re:Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo by ryanbrunner on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:27AM (#19718354)
The real key part of this phrase is "sufficiently complicated". GraphQL shines in certain scenarios, but not every API needs this complexity.
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