Talk about pros and cons of GraphQL

• 04, 11, 2021
•  bullgare
•  golang
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Pros:
Very flexible — clients decide which fields of which entities they need.
Documentation and test UI are available by default.

Cons:
Code looks ugly.
N+1 selects problem is hard to solve (most probably — with some ad-hoc).
It’s harder to test as you don’t know all the use cases.
Not a binary protocol — is not that efficient in terms of network utilization.
Mutations are even harder to implement, so it’s not the best idea to even try it.

Here is the video in Russian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jveuz-9ChnE

Example from the video (not great) — https://github.com/minenok/shop-gennady
Much better example — https://github.com/ZAYDEK/graphql-go-walkthrough

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