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Old Jan 9, 2020, 4:21 pm
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D582
 
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Originally Posted by jc94
I was asked for assistance with REST queries yesterday.
REST isn’t going anywhere for a long time. And for many use cases it’s perfectly fine. (For example if all you need is a couple of GETs and POSTs with very narrow scope and very structured data then it’s fine).

But if your app needs to make multiple round trip calls to multiple URL endpoints and ends up receiving more data than it needs, GraphQL is much better suited and can be much more efficient.
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