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Discussion on: GraphQL : The new REST?

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April Mintac Pineda

It's because this post failed to highlight the actual strength and use case of GraphQL and tried to present GraphQL as a replacement for REST which is not true. But once you actually learn it and use it, you'll appreciate what it allows you to do.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

That very much aligns with my point though; GraphQL is not a replacement for REST because they're different things. GraphQL is a query language, just like SQL is. So it's those two that should be compared, while REST has little to do with either of them.

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Gerard Klijs

I would argue they are 3 different, which each there own good use cases.