GraphQL makes it stupidly easy to write queries that murder your database. Our homepage was hitting the database 2,031 times per page load. Yeah. Here’s how we got it down to 3 queries without changing the API. The query that looked innocent query Homepage { posts { id title author { id name avatar } comments { id text author { name } } } } Looks fine. Perfectly reasonable GraphQL query. Returns 10 posts with their authors and comments. ...
GraphQL and REST are both popular API design approaches. Here’s when to use each. REST API Overview REST (Representational State Transfer) uses HTTP methods to interact with resources. Characteristics Resource-based: URLs represent resources HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE Stateless: Each request is independent Multiple endpoints: Different URLs for different resources Example GET /api/users GET /api/users/123 POST /api/users PUT /api/users/123 DELETE /api/users/123 GraphQL Overview GraphQL is a query language and runtime for APIs. ...