[jmull]

I don’t understand... doesn’t GraphQL encourage embedding full queries into the client app? It’s not SQL but it’s equivalent. Isn’t this a road of pain for any project that is long-lived or scaled.

I guess I can see it sitting between a data cache — that is filled by a set of relatively large-granularity fixed queries that can have a decent cache validation mechanism — and the client UI. Maybe that’s how it’s actually implemented? But then it seems like that would often be better (at least much of the time) for that data cache to be client-side.

You do want a way to pass user filter conditions back through the data access pipeline (but not business logic where-clause conditions) all the way back to the data store, but those should still be constrained.