An HTTP ("REST") API is certainly no more wasteful than GraphQL.
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If done right, it's literally just pushing bytes over the wire, whereas GraphQL at the very least involves JSON parsing, comparison, reconstruction, and serialization.
An HTTP ("REST") API is certainly no more wasteful than GraphQL.
If done right, it's literally just pushing bytes over the wire, whereas GraphQL at the very least involves JSON parsing, comparison, reconstruction, and serialization.