GraphQL was designed for mobile apps and UIs, and I think it’s perfectly suited. We started to build our front end using our public REST API and the experience

GraphQL was designed for mobile apps and UIs, and I think it’s perfectly suited. We started to build our front end using our public REST API and the experience was so harrowing that we started looking for something else. The big win with GraphQL comes from the client-side tooling. You can have a React page with 100 components that each request their own data, and have it automatically batched up into a single request. Your page no longer has to predict what data the components will need. When a junior front end dev tries to reuse a component from page A in page B, the page B query will automatically be updated to fetch the data required for that component.