What Is GraphQL? REST vs. GraphQL

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[@dmitrylubyanov7277]

Probably the most easy to understand video I've seen about differences between REST and GraphQL. Thank you!

[@youngKOkid1]

GraphQL seems like an ambitious & interesting idea, as well as a horrendous footgun. Thanks for the wonderful explanation as always!

[@Necessaryy]

The graphics and animations are simply next level.

[@golden_smiles]

It is most quick , constructive and comprehensive essence of knowledge without any extra BS payload like memes and distracting videos. Thank you, sir.

[@icycounter-strikeandleague8431]

Did you just roast fireship?

[@MrPilz28]

Great work as always ! I'm really impressed by the quality of your slides

[@casual_sky2]

This is a fantastic video! Thanks for the comparisons, it really helped me understand what was going on. I was having trouble understanding the concepts seeing as not many people explain it this simply and I didn't have time to dig into the documentation... Thanks a lot. I'll be sharing this video for anybody else who needs a quick, no fuss intro to graphql.

[@molomekeys3938]

the work on animation is incredible very inspiring

[@ramkanagu]

Nicely explained! In ten years down the line, GraphQL will be identified as an anti-pattern in the industry. Though it may seem very easy and attractive initially, it would become more complex once the schemas become big. REST is simple and easy to implement. The only caveat with REST is multiple api calls to backend. The better and a traditional approach should be by introducing orchestration services for any frontend that requires more complex data models from the back end.

[@GameboyZoneRocks]

Can you give an example of orchestration services for frontend which will circumvent GraphQL? Your comment was interesting for me.

[@SOMEONE-eq5bu]

That was most well and detailed explanation I've seen Liked and subscribed

[@TwoWholeWorms]

Added this to our standard training tools. Brilliant job, looking forward to your future videos! ^^

[@chamaraanu]

One of the best videos to grasp the idea of GraphQl.

[@goldfishbrainjohn2462]

I like this channel. Valuable technical system design series.

[@khalilshaik6161]

very clear explanation! instantly subscribed!

[@RaymondPeckIII]

Interesting. I implemented some similar features in the H2O-3 REST API framework back in 2015. You can white- or black-list fields, and specify which if any child objects to return in the payload, so you didn't have to make many REST requests and assemble an object graph yourself inside the client. The query language was just REST with a couple optional parameters on top of it. It doesn't require a schema (it's schema-on read, with automatically-generated rich metadata for the schemas), or a special query language. You just specify the field paths for any child or grandchild classes you want returned. The API is defined in a very lightweight way, simply by creating a parameterized class for each class in the API. No boilerplate, no IDL.

[@zoomzoom1889]

thank you for this! extremally valuable resources, please keeping making this content

[@jamesT008]

To the point and precise explanation. Nothing bla bla !! Very nice!

[@drift_ah1518]

exactly what i thought - nice to spend exactly the minutes required to appraise oneself of a technology. plus i especially liked his no nonsense take on the pros and cons. a really good job/video

[@nyplace1]

amazing animations, a very clear explanation, thank you!

[@SinnuC]

Complete brief video, thank you!

[@taunado]

Beautiful animations and explanation. Thanks.

[@juliahuanlingtong6757]

Great piece! Would love to have a piece elaborate on the caching behaviors of HTTP GET leveraged by browser, CDN and servers mentioned in the video.

[@matthiasdebernardini3388]

such a great video - love the channel!

[@belhamyou2766]

Fantastic video, clear and short

[@dushyantchaudhry4654]

2:11 to 2:21 a superb concise explanation of the difference.

[@jacquesmatike9289]

Good explanations ... good animations !!

[@charuwaka1]

The way you explained is TOP NOTCH

[@JuliLukiKon]

Thanks for the explanation! That was very helpful!

[@usamesavas9848]

Wow, very concise. Thanks for the video.

[@PlectrumShorts]

Terrific overview and I *really* appreciate the caveats!

[@deepanshukacher1536]

Really clarify my understanding of their usage

[@vskovzgird]

Dude, you are the best. Thanks! Keep it up!

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[@eminberkay]

Excellent explanation, thanks! subscribed 👍

[@jashgopani32]

Amazing video, animatin and presentation!

[@aminaomar9173]

Thank you for this great explanation.

[@angelsancheese]

Thank you for the video! I learned something new

[@cold_2477]

What a beautiful and informative video.

[@whereispie]

Nice and stylish tutorial, thanks

[@mineralisk]

Thanks for the quality content.

[@sscapture]

Love your videos! Thank you so much!! ❤

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Very Well explained.

[@julivanespi]

great video. easy to understand

[@ernestoginotome2453]

Thank you very much for the explanation.

[@pandyaakash5647]

Great Job buddy. Impressed

[@andriikozakevych5669]

Great explanation! Clear and easy. Thanks a lot!

[@dadno_sound4533]

Learned a lot here!

[@tiagosutter8821]

thanks for content! suggestion: Odata, or maybe a video about "Rest vs. Odata vs. GraphQL"

[@mohamedk.badenjki8781]

Thank you for the great video. What tool / software are you using for the video animation?

[@salamander1782]

Your videos are a god send

[@userss9096]

Great explanation!

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[@RafaelCorreaGomes]

Amazing, thank you for sharing it!

[@alexandervashchuk7795]

great breakdown, thanks

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Thank you! Great video.

[@user-qy7mb5ho9e]

Fantastic Motion animation btw

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Love your videos!

[@manu144x]

It always seemed to me that graphQL is only worth it beyond a certain level of complexity and when you're dealing with an extremely varied array of clients each needing different fields, different data, different implementations. This gives the clients maximum flexibility and you move a lot of the complexity to the client side. If you don't want to implement hundreds of endpoints and API's you just create the graphql middleware, schemas and you're good to go. But security is a big risk, you need to make sure sensible data is not being returned in any way, not to mention you introduce a lot more possibilities for bugs.

[@tomu5642514]

Exactly, for me it's pretty clear that the main use case of graphql it's one where you have as you said a varied array of clients who evolve independently from your api implementation and you have a complex data model that otherwise requires multiple endpoint implementations. Only in this case the tradeoff between this extra layer of complexity and cost it's worth for a business.

[@TheRedbeardster]

Nice one, thanks!

[@user-qy7mb5ho9e]

Thx! So helpful!!

[@victormanuelfrancodev]

Nice explain! thanks

[@doronsvable]

Thanks Great Explentation

[@mitotv6376]

Nice explanation

[@eltreum1]

GraphQL was designed by Facebook to solve over fetching problems aggregating data lakes containing overlapping/duplicate data sometimes from uncontrolled 3rd parties for a global service that processes millions of write and read queries per hour 24/7. It can be useful for taming bloated data lakes or getting more out of old systems. If you are building a new system ground up you probably won't need it unless your data models are very complex with giant records, but probably a just bad design. I have seen startups fail because they wasted time and money on GQL when they didn't really need it or the complexity it adds made getting the service to work well difficult or fragile. Don't engineer like FB and Google until you are that big and make a system that gets the objective work done well and code it so it can grow and modularize later if needed.

[@swdRanaP]

which software you use to crate this kind of animation video? please tell me. and thank you so much for shareing this wonderful explanation.

[@yp5387]

In my company we use GraphQL as primary API and it is not good. We are planning to move everything to REST api. Knowledge gap is the biggest trade off for us. New talent is having hard time wrapping their head around GraphQL queries. REST is pretty simple and easy to understand thus less development time for all the developers.

[@alexkey9372]

same here. biggest mistake we've ever done. REST API is way more mature. when graphql reaches that point then we might re-consider.

[@TheVasx]

Might be a bit of devs fault. New hire or not, graphql for FE is something you learn in a couple of days if you have some experience

[@alexkey9372]

@@TheVasx in our case, it wasn't the knowledge gap but the performance. all graphql requests are POST, therefore is really hard to cache them. We thought for bigger project would be better, but that was proven to be a naive thought.

[@TheVasx]

@@alexkey9372 oh yea, if you depend on caching its all a big clusterfuck 🔥🔥

[@yp5387]

@@TheVasx Agree. And sooner or later, caching will come into the picture for sure.

[@mokyyds]

Like, your video content is very professional, what software did you use to make the video? thanks

[@allezvenga7617]

Thanks for your sharing

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

Nice comparison!

[@dungnguyenanh1085]

Great video!

[@code-tips]

Nice video 👏👏. Which tool are you using for making such great videos?

[@romulosendoromulo]

Very nice, thanks!

Great video! But sincerely I would continue to use JSONAPI instead of GraphQL. JSONAPI is super nice, supported by a lot of frameworks and it's build around the specific fields to be fetched just when they are needed... not to mention the pre-build filters that you can specific on your resources and simplify the way you filter for particular records and collections

[@sadashivshinde9150]

Thats the biased devloper inside u

@@sadashivshinde9150 Maybe 😂

[@orion.5611]

which good resources are available for learning JSONAPI. i have found a small number and i dont understand it fully

[@sourabhjana1278]

cool explaination

[@YusanTRusli]

great video!

[@vlog.444]

Super explanation

[@thanhsonha7009]

Great Video.

[@starkest]

great explanation, as usual

[@rahatsshowcase8614]

this was best ! because everyone was speaking regarding graphql directly and i was thinking its a sql languange XD

[@edwardokech4347]

Awesome video...receiving all resources from one request seems great for GraphQL. However, not sure about its security capabilities and the fact caching is a headache. As a lead Engineer, I'll recommend GraphQL for our internal tools still not convinced about using it in our production apps.

[@M3t4lstorm]

How would GQL differ from a security perspecific than any other HTTP based API...

[@semosancus5506]

@@M3t4lstorm Makes you wonder about the Lead Engineer....

[@vitorguidorizzzi7538]

@@M3t4lstorm Not really a security issue per se, but graphql makes it easier to write very expensive queries, rest can rely on basic rate limiting but graphql also needs to block clients spaming tremendously expensive requests

[@thanhauco]

Thank you for great video, tRPC is now gaining growth and replace graphql

[@virtuoso_hub]

great! how do you prepare your presentations? so beautiful!

[@whonayem01]

Thanks

[@shutanovac]

Frankly I didn't understand the part with the table scan that could bring the DB down. Someone care to elaborate please?

[@YBuda101]

I'm not sure what the details are of his example, but as presented, that risk is possible with REST calls too. Unsure why he singled it out as a GraphQL problem

[@DF-ss5ep]

For example "find a user whose name matches a regex", and the name column in the DB has no index. In practice, I don't think such a query is likely to bring down the entire service, although it's possible. It would depend on how many of these queries are executed. In a bad scenario, all other queries become slow because the DB is overloaded, which causes more and more requests to accumulate, until everything fails. I don't know how GraphQL works, but with simple REST + SQL, you would use the circuit breaker pattern and use a "bouncer" (a proxy) in front of the db

[@DF-ss5ep]

To be fair, you can also accidentally do a full scan of a table in SQL too. Maybe it's just a bit less likely because developers who build the queries are more aware of what's in it than frontend developers

[@yannistheodorakopoulos5916]

Totally agree on that. But the main misconception with GraphQL is the following: Maybe this is the biggest mistake in GraphQL implementations. While it is meant to be a form of contract between the client and the server, in which the backend side plays the role of the aggregator that fetches data from different sources, people use it to communicate with the database layer instead.

[@kimovitch7]

@@yannistheodorakopoulos5916 I thought it was obvious that graphql should be used as a backend for frontend more than for data access layer, guess people relying on it to do stuff it's not that good for... Graphql should just stay away from your domain/business layer

[@ReflectionOcean]

Rest: simple to implement and use, with inefficiency in specific occasions because of multiple API calls required GraphQL: flexible and efficient to use, but complex to implement and use and often relies on extra tools

[@Vedarta]

Great video, but I don’t see the advantage of GraphQL over JSONAPI. Also, there are several open source implementationsfor JSONAPI. I would only maybe use GraphQL to describe relations not predicted by a JSONAPI REST API, if that much.

[@zaxx7884]

GraphQL is great, but I'm a little worried about the delay when I put NodeJS as BFF in between. How do you all solution?

[@nickolaskraus]

I liked the nod to the SpaceX Dragon capsule in the GraphQL schema 😏

[@Lost1nTranslation]

Nice video

[@chackokabraham738]

Hey alex, good Video, how ever i have two questions 1. Is Odata and graphql sort of the same I mean you can fetch by the query or am I right in saying that the schema of odata is different and way different than Odata ?? 2. Do we need a specific type of database like a nosql or graph db for querying such information ??

[@MythicEcho]

I immediately went to your channel to watch more videos, but the count is very low. But thats the catch, quantity > quality.

[@wild_shaman]

GraphQL is a marketing tool. It requires way more server work to be done for really rare usecase. Usually it's better to use json rpc with predefined request differs.

[@caro.girlwithflowers]

good job bro :D

[@HANNAHSdigitaldiaries]

Is it same persistent tables for GraphQL and REST? If so, can GraphQL guarantee atomic operations across tables?

[@vitorguidorizzzi7538]

graphql is just a specification for http requests, it does not interfere with your tables.

[@user-ib1pl5wg5w]

Where are they better to use in terms of safety and cost?

[@MarcoLenzo]

Which program do you use for animations?

[@satish1012]

any one understood at 4:21 . What he meant? How does the entire table span occurs?

[@marvhan888]

5 star video

[@roman3249]

In previous video I just watched they told that n+1 problem is a problem of GraphQL approach, in this video they told that n+1 problem is a problem of REST approach 🤯

[@ahmedeox]

how is this in principle different from soap and exchangign wsdl schemas?

[@neildutoit5177]

What is the GraphQL analogue for HATEOAS? I.e. how do you discover resources?

[@oliveryt7168]

Important question!