[fiatjaf]

As a standalone all-by-myself indie developer I was skeptical of GraphQL when it first appeared, but later I discovered it is much easier to develop APIs for my own consumption with GraphQL. The basic GraphQL boilerplate seems bad, but is actually fun to write and makes total sense. And once you have the structure in place it is super easy to add functionality.

Plus bonuses if you have more than one database or are mixing data from your database and external APIs in your backend responses.

Please try it for a small project, it is unbelievable, but you'll probably enjoy it.

(For the record: I've just used https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql and Lokka on the client, because it is simple and does nothing fancy, it's a thin wrapper over XHR, I think.)

[pier25]

> Plus bonuses if you have more than one database or are mixing data from your database and external APIs in your backend responses.

You can easily do that with a RESTful API too.

[fiatjaf]

You can do anything with any programming language, framework or design pattern.

[pier25]

Yes, hence it's not a bonus.