[t_fatus]

One important thing to note: performance-wise, both in front-end when used with apollo, and in backend (you need to handle nested queries smartly) a good implementation of a REST api would probably be faster / lighter, but it should be largely enough for any web-app / web-service used by human beings ;)

[alexchamberlain]

Citation needed; what is your evidence for such an assertion?

[t_fatus]

Graphql and apollo add some overhead to your queries, both in your client and your API. And since you're still performing a POST query with each graphql query it's kinda logical to see that pure / well designed REST can outperformed graphql (if you know exactly what you want to return you don't have to run through the graphql schema / node / resolver to get the value your looking for)