[jelder]

Seems like you’d get a lot of the same benefits with GraphQL on a scalable backend like AWS Lambda.

Every page can use a (named) query for just the objects needed, and just the fields of those objects.

[hervem]

GraphQL got out just some years after BFF introduction, but even today BFF works nice while having a monolithic after that it brings a lot of hell / problems..

In distributed cases, BFF makes it a lot harder: aggregation or federation of API which are far way more complex subjects. (how to works with teams, who define data constrains, how to ensure data constrains are followed, etc.)

[boxed]

> In distributed cases, BFF makes it a lot harder

As in "microservices"? Well.. I think we all know having microservices makes everything harder and almost everything worse :P