[swlkr]

In my limited experience implementing a GraphQL server with node.js at work for a smaller app, it adds quite a bit of complexity to getting data out of a relational database.

After implementing GQL, I found this very old slide show on REST and it happened to solve my complexity problems. https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/landlessness/teach-a-dog-t...

GQL and this alternative have their place and they solve problems for very large teams of (like the teams at Facebook), but for smaller teams and smaller apps, I'm not sure it's the right solution to REST's "join" problem.