Serious question, as I am no longer the wide-eyed mid level dev who ranhad to work with GraphQL:
What does it do that REST can't? Why was 2018 like "omg GraphQL!!!!". Ive been in CRUD land most of my career, happily there now.
But I realised all the things I was told are the selling points of GQL, aren't really, true? In the sense that they were always sold to me as "better than REST in every way".
I like CRUD 🤷♂️
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@befafebe It is nice to use. We had some major order management system provide a first class Graphql API. Using it was rather easy. They did not present it as some major feature but rather humbly. Was mostly convinient. Did allow many things like advanced request validation of query and values. We could also combine our own queries to meet our needs. No need to make multiple calls and compile the data we wanted.
I guess #Graphql got mature enough and people use it without too much publicity.
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