4 reasons why you should use GraphQL over REST APIs

 By DEV Community - 2021-01-06

Description

REST has been preferred by many developers to send data over HTTP because they didn't need to install...

Summary

  • REST has been preferred by many developers to send data over HTTP because they didn't need to install additional software or libraries when creating an API though GraphQL is ordinarily introduced as a technology to replace the legacy of REST APIs.
  • So, the client has to make multiple requests to get everything the application needs.
  • I also held discussions about converting blobs on the backend or sending them over to the third parties that can handle it and store it as a file with url of the image in response.
  • REST API over fetching and under fetching can be resolved on the REST API, I am sure that you do it yourself if you are fullstack so you have control what is sent over which API route or if you are frontend, I know it is difficult, but please try to communicate with, you know, backend guy who handles the REST API routes.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.28)
  2. Frontend (0.19)
  3. UX (0.16)

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