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lmm on Nov 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intercooler.js – Making AJAX as easy as anchor tag...

> Customers aren't going to use GraphQL for a public API

Why not?

ryanbrunner on Nov 7, 2016 [–]

Right now this isn't feasible. People are used to REST APIs, and the tooling and documentation (particularly outside of use with React and Relay) for GraphQL isn't where it needs to be for it to be feasible for a customer-facing API.

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