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by dmitriid 3280 days ago
A website that should heavily depend on caching relies on tech that allows only POST requests (non-cacheable, non-idempotent) and hopes for workarounds later
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GraphQL definitely allows GET and supports HTTP caching just as well as any other kind of API!
GETs for GraphQL are awkward at best

The caching section in GraphQL docs is cringe worthy, and, as evidenced by the article, that's exactly what Times are going to do: try to slap global ids everywhere and pretend it's ok