Nikolas Burk
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

That’s a good point! I think fundamentally it’s definitely possible to get some of the benefits you’d get from GraphQL also with REST by adjusting the JSON payloads to be returned by the API endpoints. But for most companies this is not really a scalable approach (might look for different for smaller apps / indie developers) as they have multiple client apps with different data needs accessing the same backend. Adjusting the API every time you want to make a change to the design on the frontend or introduce a new client application produces an incredible overhead and is a risky source of bugs.

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