GraphQL

turtles · Veteran Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 1655

Greetings I am curious how many of you who code for a living are working with 'GraphQL' and what you all think of it?

https://graphql.github.io/graphql-spec/June2018/
https://medium.com/@localh0t/discovering-graphql-endpoints-and-sqli-vulnerabilities-5d39f26cea2e
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kikko · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:30 pm Post subject:

Personal opinion: Looks cool, like a query language for Web APIs. You can reuse an actual implementation for different purposes, limiting the access to the data at the same time

It's a really interesting topic, because it provides a flexible way to interact with APIs and to gather only the data effectively needed in an operation

On the other hand: In a architecture based on microservice/single-function/fixed-purpose components, which already "do a single thing (and do it well)*", does the added complexity of GraphQL compared to a "plain" JSON API makes sense?

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