> Whereas with GraphQL, it facilitates building a single API call that says "give me all friends for a specific user, along with each friend's hometown". Bette

> Whereas with GraphQL, it facilitates building a single API call that says "give me all friends for a specific user, along with each friend's hometown". Better yet, submit a request asking for all friends whose hometown is NYC (or whose hometown is the same as one of the user's previous hometowns, or...). That way only a subset of the data needs transmitting.