REST for Web Apps

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I ran across this link, with a clickbaitish title, REST for Web Apps is So Passé. As mentioned in the article, Facebook is working on GraphQL. Netflix is also working on something similar, Falcor.

For me personally, I felt like the whole REST thing was just sinking in, and I really liked it, and then this comes along to shake things up. 🙂

I work on the Management UI, and I do notice some of the pains described in the article, e.g., query params start proliferating in the Management API to meet our needs.

I don't know if GraphQL is the answer, as you are arguably, for example, just moving the REST query params logic somewhere else.

Just curious what others think. I don't have the answers, but this article shook my RESTful worldview a little, and I'm wondering if anybody else has tried something along these lines or run into similar issues.

Charles

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