REST and GraphQL have slightly different use cases. REST is simpler, both in concept and implementation than GraphQL. GraphQL offers more flexibility in excha

REST and GraphQL have slightly different use cases. REST is simpler, both in concept and implementation than GraphQL. GraphQL offers more flexibility in exchange for that added complexity. GraphQL puts more of the burden on the front-end/client-side code to define the data they want, which is a good fit for services that have many different consumer platforms that require different data (web, mobile, etc), or when the scope of the data that should be returned is very context-specific (e.g. I only need preview-size images for this view, but I need a large images and more metadata for another, and some other requirements for a third).