[alexmuro]

Jafar Husain does an excellent job of explaining some of the problems netflix has had with REST APIs and why you might want to take a different approach in his introduction to Falcor video. Falcor is tackling some of the same problems as graphql / relay but making trade offs at different points.

https://netflix.github.io/falcor/starter/why-falcor.html

A REST API may be the best decision for a lot of projects but GraphQL and Falcor are solving interesting problems that come up more and more in single page apps of increasing complexity.

[Mickydtron]

It's interesting to read the article with his presentation in mind. From a technical perspective, you should be able to just swap Netflix/Falcor in for Facebook/Relay in this article and have the arguments make about as much sense (They are both graphQL adjacent approaches to APIs that explicitly abandon RESTful principles). However, it seems to me that the article would be way less persuasive or interesting if you did that, because a lot of the intended force of the article relies on the premise "Facebook is evil", rather than the technology at hand. However, using "Facebook is evil" to prove "This thing that Facebook is doing is evil" is way less interesting than showing the latter just from technical details.