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A comment on GraphQL Live Queries with live directive. Parent comment

Re:GraphQL Live Queries with live directive by revskill on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:24PM (#34405072)
I'm still not sure about benefit of GraphQL over welled designed Restful API.
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Re:GraphQL Live Queries with live directive by fbjork on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:34AM (#34410669)
We chose GraphQL at Grafbase for a few reasons:

- The client can ask for the data it needs, which also improves performance by reducing bandwidth

- Aggregating data from multiple data sources with a single request

- Widely adopted and loved by frontend and mobile developers

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