On: Why not use GraphQL?

[Draiken]

Almost anything FB (and FAANG) builds is hyped to infinity. Everyone drank the cool aid on this one.

React and GraphQL are extremely hyped. People build static HTML pages with React because... React. People use GraphQL APIs because... GraphQL.

These days the first thing every JS developer I've seen asks is: can we use GraphQL (which in fact they mean Apollo)?

I'm not saying it doesn't have its use-cases and merits, but it's very much hype tech.

Edit: typo