GraphQL is interesting although it doesn’t appear to be answer to designing better APIs (poor modularaization, monitoring, and tooling come to mind). “Mutations

GraphQL is interesting although it doesn’t appear to be answer to designing better APIs (poor modularaization, monitoring, and tooling come to mind). “Mutations” look to be an afterthought, and schema/ui are not impressive either. Above plus companies tripping hard to monetize tooling around something that you get completely for free with REST... Even as UI engineer I don’t get the appeal of it - state, caching and all the “performance” tuning make it too complicated.