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You probably don't need GraphQL
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"GraphQL got a lot of hype because it enabled building typesafe APIs with a better developer experience than any other API"
Haha.
No.
The experience was awful.
Come at me, type-safe bros. Your favorite tech still sucks.
Actually, that's true, across the board. Your favorite technology, it has serious flaws. Frankly, it sucks.
Now get off my lawn.
Unless it's that medicine that prolonged your favorite grandparent's life and quality. That technology is pretty great. But the rest still sucks.
Not sure why you're downvoted. You're not wrong.
I say this as a member of my local GraphQL meetup group.
It solves a lot of interesting problems with APIs at scale.
But every time some hobbyist was like, "Is it worth it?" I constantly had to bite my tongue and shrug. It's like teaching a whole new paradigm.
And even though I think GraphQL is superior, it's a lot to understand and most people probably won't give AF. Fetching JSON works just fine for 99% of use cases.
I think he's being downvoted because he's one of those "who needs type safety?" fools. And because of the general rambling nonsense. Yeah JSON works fine for 99% of use cases but that isn't what he said.