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Absolutely. REST APIs are passive and GraphQL APIs are the vice versa, very active and progressive in nature, GraphQL also comes with a simpler model to process real time data (subscriptions). However, it is relatively hard to scale GraphQL (especially if you had Websocket based subscriptions) while REST can be backed by traditional HTTP proxy.



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