[ritchiea]

It’s dismissive to call it luddism. I am a big anti-GraphQL voice but in the specific cases where I tend to work: on small cross functional, often full stack dev teams. It’s a layer of formal promises about the API that I find extremely unnecessary & unproductive for small teams that I can see the appeal for at a huge corp like Facebook where frontend devs probably don’t write much or any backend code.

The problem usually isn’t the library itself and that’s true of GraohQL. It’s the cargo culting of GraphQL & other new tech that might be unnecessary or overengineering for your specific use case.