Just to add a bit to the discussion, I would encourage anyone interested in this thread to listen to this talk from GraphQL Summit on HTTP and caching in general with GraphQL. It was given by a senior platform engineer at GitHub. He goes pretty in depth comparing caching in GraphQL vs in a traditional REST API (Including HTTP caching). I think he does a good job of explaining the pros and cons with both patterns. youtube.com/watch?v=CV3puKM_G14
Just to add a bit to the discussion, I would encourage anyone interested in this thread to listen to this talk from GraphQL Summit on HTTP and caching in general with GraphQL. It was given by a senior platform engineer at GitHub. He goes pretty in depth comparing caching in GraphQL vs in a traditional REST API (Including HTTP caching). I think he does a good job of explaining the pros and cons with both patterns. youtube.com/watch?v=CV3puKM_G14
Thanks Bryan, very interesting!