GraphQL has advantages that make it great in certain situations but it can be very difficult to wrangle it at large scale and you basically need to hire Faceboo

GraphQL has advantages that make it great in certain situations but it can be very difficult to wrangle it at large scale and you basically need to hire Facebook GraphQL engineers once you get to a certain size. If you are using Typescript on backend and frontend (react/reactnative ok, native ios/android app no) then checkout tRPC. https://trpc.io/ https://trpc.io/ tRPC is basically: you just call your backend functions on your frontend, and TRPC handles the API that makes it work. It shares types and when you define a type for your backend, and call that function, you get the type on your frontend. Incredible for small apps/teams, but has it's limitations (especially before the most recent version) and probably not the solution for a big honkin app. I've been playing with create-t3-app and it's pretty nice, great way to launch a basic typescript/trpc/nextjs/prisma app. https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app I use GraphQL at work and it's fine, it's just a lot of code and codegen and work for a small team, we'd be faster on tRPC but tRPC didn't even exist when this codebase chose graphQL lol