TLDR Web Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE

WHY, AFTER 6 YEARS, I'M OVER GRAPHQL

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After initially being a GraphQL advocate, this developer now advises against its use due to several issues he encountered. These include increased attack surface due to query language exposure, difficulties in implementing effective rate limiting, challenges with query parsing and server overload, performance issues like N+1 problems and data authorization inefficiencies, and the overall complexity of maintaining a GraphQL codebase.