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Discussion on: What is GraphQL and why I should use it?

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Prashanth Krishnamurthy

That's a good question.

I am referring to high no. of data points = high no. of fields / highly normalized schema.

Sorry for not being clear.

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Asad Raheem • Edited

Thanks for clearing out.

It would be great if you can elaborate on the following point as well:

Remember that plain Rest API implementations are simpler

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Prashanth Krishnamurthy

I intended to recommend GraphQL for databases that have many fields and/or relationships.

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Since most of my services are data-heavy, I particularly like the fact that I don't need to maintain a dozen end-points".

GraphQL enables selective retrieval and that (for me) is a big plus.

Obviously I am not a good communicator :p

I would like to answer your second question in more detail and have updated the post!

Thanks for the great questions.