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0 pointslolive8y ago0 comments

So GraphQL is a graph abstraction over REST APIs, at the cost of massive REST calls to rebuild a graph. True?

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basically yes: http://graphql.org/blog/rest-api-graphql-wrapper/

You can wrap REST APIs with GraphQL. And yeah, as you you mention, caching is usually important in such scenarios. In JS there's https://github.com/facebook/dataloader which help with the caching. I am using a Java implementation with Google's LoadingCache.

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0 pointslolive8y ago0 comments

So GraphQL is a graph abstraction over REST APIs, at the cost of massive REST calls to rebuild a graph. True?

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loliveOP8y ago

basically yes: http://graphql.org/blog/rest-api-graphql-wrapper/

linkmotif8y ago

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