GraphQL decouples the frontend team's data needs from the teams managing the API and data layers. GraphQL was first deployed for Facebook's native mobile applications. Clients and backends had rapidly diverging data needs. Mobile clients were different than web clients. Some APIs didn't even exist (e.g., hydrated serverside and sent as HTML). iOS applications might rarely (or never) be updated.
GraphQL Trades Complexity
GraphQL Trades Complexity
GraphQL Trades Complexity
GraphQL decouples the frontend team's data needs from the teams managing the API and data layers. GraphQL was first deployed for Facebook's native mobile applications. Clients and backends had rapidly diverging data needs. Mobile clients were different than web clients. Some APIs didn't even exist (e.g., hydrated serverside and sent as HTML). iOS applications might rarely (or never) be updated.