It's called a "BFF" (Backend For Frontend) https://blog.bitsrc.io/bff-pattern-backend-for-frontend-an-introduction-e4fa965128bf?gi=cfe66890e78c https://blog.bit

It's called a "BFF" (Backend For Frontend) https://blog.bitsrc.io/bff-pattern-backend-for-frontend-an-introduction-e4fa965128bf?gi=cfe66890e78c https://blog.bitsrc.io/bff-pattern-backend-for-frontend-an-i... It's a really nice pattern particularly for multi-client applications consuming the same resources. Instead of trying to make a single REST api work for desktop, mobile, and web, you can have a BFF for each which all share the same GQL definitions and data access patterns, but can have platform specific routing/handling/auth logic.