3 posts tagged with "REST"

Every few years, the API wars get a new challenger. REST fought GraphQL. GraphQL fought gRPC. Now GraphQL is fighting tRPC, and a loud corner of the TypeScript community insists we can finally delete GraphQL from the stack forever. They're half right, half wrong, and half neither (yes, that's 150%; API debates don't always add up). Here's the honest comparison, the scenarios where each genuinely wins, and a reminder that this debate is only meaningful for a specific slice of the industry.

I was a REST purist. Endpoints were my religion, HTTP verbs my commandments. Then GraphQL came along and made me an accomplice to REST's demise. This is my confession.

A comparison of REST and GraphQL API approaches - understanding when to use each.