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One benefit is simplifying the offline-first story. There is a lot of tooling around this and cloud graphql services like AWS AppSync include it out of the box
by heroprotagonist 6y ago
One benefit is simplifying the offline-first story. There is a lot of tooling around this and cloud graphql services like AWS AppSync include it out of the box.
It's perhaps less useful for web apps than mobile apps. Even there, retrieving only deltas of modified data can add efficiency over repeating REST calls. Which is possible with REST as well, but more complex.