Is GraphQL the end of RESTstyle APIs
summary
Argues GraphQL can replace many REST patterns by cutting round trips and eliminating overfetching and underfetching, demonstrates a working schedule API built with less than 100 lines of JavaScript that uses schema introspection to power an interactive client, reports using GraphQL as an aggregator over over 100 microservices, shows mutations as first class and a resolver-per-field model, notes limitations around linkability and web crawling but shows the demo works and that embedding GraphQL as a library avoids extra network hops.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to API talk
- 3:06REST API challenges
- 6:47Introduction to GraphQL
- 9:48Live GraphQL demo
- 13:47GraphQL's future and role
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