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Discussion on: REST or GraphQL, which do you choose?

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toco

REST is better for read-heavy, GraphQL for write-heavy applications. We've done a comparison for e-commerce applications:

aimeos.org/tips/graphql-vs-jsonapi...

Our decision was to continue to use REST or more precise JSON:API (jsonapi.org) for the frontend and GraphQL for the admin backend.