[rektide]

I like how JSON-LD lets one embed many resources inside a document. And there are plenty of good preludes to this recent emergence: Soundcloud wrote about how they used an instance store 3 years ago in their clientside to extract all relevant models, and push them into an "instance store" where anyone else might find the data when they need it. https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/building-the-next-sou...

What's really exciting is an expressive model that allows code to state what dependencies it has. The transport and fulfillment of needed data- what intermediary stores the data gets to and how pending views are signaled availability- is a more mechanistic, rote, already faced task, albeit one that each company seems to tackle on their own. The step further- declaring and modeling dependencies, is what makes GraphQL an interesting capabilities.

Soundcloud's 3 year old blog post is a good reference to show that "instance stores"- these clientside object database services- have been around for a good while, and can be done fine with REST as easily as without.