I am a self-taught noob trying to plan the API for my first non-trivial project. The general consensus appears to be like that REST and graphQL are the only ways to structure APIs and GraphQL is better than Rest whenever you may need to make data intensive requests. How true is that?
How serious is the issue of PATENTS for React and GraphQL? What are some alternatives?
Are there any tutorial that describes how to go about designing and implementing a non-trivial project from scratch? I am feeling like I am getting stuck at the planning stage of technical things and have no idea how to start a project. So any thing that shows how to go about implementing a web-based project from start to finish including db, backend and frontend in any language would do. Thanks.