Infinity Wars: REST vs GraphQL
summary
Compares the advantages and disadvantages of REST and GraphQL for building APIs, examining where each approach excels or falls short. Discusses concrete trade-offs relevant to frontend engineering and API design, informed by the speaker’s experience with web development technologies.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 3:26Obvious and Consistent Endpoint Names
- 4:00Mature & Stable
- 5:15Multiple Round Trips
- 5:54Over/Under Fetching
- 12:42Single Round-Trip
- 13:02Flexibility
- 13:19Loved by frontend devs
- 13:41Error Handling
- 14:21Uncacheable
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