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Re:GraphQL is quickly moving to one of my least favorite tec... by PainfullyNormal on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:51PM (#32279901)
What's the benefit of using GraphQL like an RPC framework over using REST like an RPC framework or using an actual RPC framework?
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Re:GraphQL is quickly moving to one of my least favorite tec... by gavinray on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:26PM (#32280241)
Types and tooling

There's pitiful tooling for something like JSON-RPC and no equivalent of OpenAPI for it.

If you use gRPC, there's still less tooling than there is for GraphQL and the primary transport is Protobuf.

Being able to make JSON HTTP requests ("JSON-Transcoding") is a second-class citizen if even supported at all by your server library.

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