From REST to GraphQL — No Idea What to Name This — Medium
blog.jacobwgillespie.com/from-rest-to-graphql-b4e95e94c26b
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Enter GraphQL. Using GraphQL to power our backend, we were able to provide the mobile client exactly what it needed for each request, with no additional bloat, and were able to optimize the database…