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What is that you find so complex about RESTful APIs?
by 9dev 2y ago
What is that you find so complex about RESTful APIs?
- k__ 2y agoI assume, it's less about the complexity and more about most people not understanding REST.
- DanielHB 2y agoPure REST API is a huge pain in the ass to use and leads to bad performance because of waterfall requests. It is like the number one thing GraphQL solves for most people, decide which nested relationships to inline into a response. The simplicity makes it bad to use, if you work around the simplicity (arbitrary inlining, extra fields to choose what to inline, etc) then you end up with non-standard complexity.
- nesarkvechnep 2y agoBad performance if you haven’t heard about HTTP caching. REST implies cacheabality.