I've always considered GraphQL to be conceptually flawed. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out nitter.vloup.ch/kindofwater/stat…
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Shifting way too much responsibility to the client
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how is it different to the responsibility of a hypermedia rest api client?
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A GraphQL client has much more control over the server in terms of data, furthering client-side logic implementation
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don’t some hypermedia REST APIs allow something similar (eg partial response or embed resource) based on client request?
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Replying to @jayeff
They often do, but only along pre-defined paths.

Sep 14, 2016 · 9:52 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
I suspect that as number of consumers/use cases grows the more useful an GraphQL API gets. Client control is a plus in this case.