Re:Migrating to GraphQL: A Practical Assessment
by adamscybot on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:47PM
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That essentially means you are still overfetching underneath the hood but yeh -- for me the benefits are in its ergonomics anyway. The whole under/overfetch thing is overstated.
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Re:Migrating to GraphQL: A Practical Assessment
by dmitryminkovsky on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:51PM
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Locally, yes. But that’s not a big deal unless your network is that saturated. Also, with wrapping we’re just talking first steps. Anyway the overfetching thing is less about bandwidth and more about maintaining compatibility with older clients and knowing which clients require which fields. Since each GraphQL client explicitly states the fields it needs, it’s much easier to retire old fields.