[acukan]

Then to read the planet’s name, we ask: GET - /planets/1 And to read the films titles, we ask: GET - /films/1 GET - /films/2 GET - /films/3 GET - /films/6 Once we have all 6 responses from the server, we can combine them to satisfy the data needed by our view.

this is stupid there is no need to go multiple rounds?

[JBReefer]

Yeah, this seems like terrible API design that, while it may be constructed to make a point, sort of obscures whether I should actually care.

GraphQL seems a lot more complicated to consume/explore than REST, and it looks like I need to know a good bit about how the data is shaped before I write a line of code - something that can change, and something that the current REST endpoint system (happily) doesn't need.