Having worked on a few backend teams, graphql solves the problem of decoupling frontend from backend. In theory, a well designed rest API should solve this. In

Having worked on a few backend teams, graphql solves the problem of decoupling frontend from backend. In theory, a well designed rest API should solve this. In practice, frontend teams want all sorts of metadata, want to change the shape of the data they’re fetching etc. Graphql let’s them do this without waiting on the backend team to make changes to the API. The frontend teams may not want direct access to a backend teams database. But they do want the backend to be flexible, and graphql allows for that.