GraphQL

I prefer GraphQL over REST APIs for DX and consistency compared to the wild west of REST APIs. The performance boost of querying accross multiple resources and receiving only what I need is a bonus.

My favorite thing about GrahpQL is client type generation. I get fully typed API responses without any extra work. Granted, there’s a learning curve and the tooling setup is not always trivial, but as a full stack developer, it feels great to be able to change something in the back-end and have front-end types immediately reflect those changes.

I know that there are similar solutions, such as tRPC, but GraphQL works better for multi-platform applications and is a more widely used and robust standard.