Article by Karthikeyan RESTful: (stands for Representational State Transfer, REST for short) At this point in time, is the most common choice among most devs. By virtue, they’re easy to implement, they’re stateless, and they return JSON data (although you could use XML as well). GraphQL: On the other hand, is a query language that Facebook developed to make it easier for their mobile apps to query large amounts of data without making endless requests to the backend. It’s a potent and different approach from the RESTful way. The core difference between GraphQL and REST APIs is that GraphQL is a specification, a query language, while REST is an architectural concept for network-based software. REST has had limitations like multiple network requests and overfetching data. To overcome these, Facebook developed GraphQL as an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs. One of the most common limitations of REST out-of-the-box is that of overfetching and underfetching. Thi...
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