[sahrizv]

Agreed on all counts.

However, I was more focused on the comparison with building REST APIs in Ruby. I wondered if using Absinthe to wire up all the GraphQL schemas and resolvers was a better experience in itself compared to building APIs the traditional way.

Or maybe it's a tradeoff which resolves positively in favour of GraphQL when a more expressive API is required in contrast to traditional REST when a limited API is required.

An "expressive" API as used above can be roughly understood as one with relatively large number of unique API endpoints.

[jon-wood]

I think you're about right. At least for now if I had a super simple API I'd just use Phoenix direct, but if you've got lots of inter-related objects which you're likely to query in interesting ways GraphQL makes a lot of sense.

Wrapping it all in Absinthe has been amazing for productivity once I got over the initial hump of getting my head around how it all fits together. Being able to quickly extract things like `resolve find_by_id(App.ModelName)` is incredibly refreshing, and there's very little messing around with data being provided by the client.

[sahrizv]

Got it. Thanks for taking the time to revisit and answer!