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Apollo link rest looks handy. Resolving it server-side would be even better. Is it more for client-side resolution?

link-rest fits the use case where you might not be able to transition the REST endpoint to be behind a GraphQL API (and thus be server-side resolvable which is definitely preferable) due to organizational or other concerns.

Right, but it would be great to take full advantage of the existing rest endpoint server-side. With that you don't even necessarily need to build GraphQL apis at all, and sort of get the best of both worlds.

I believe there's a relatively simple ssrMode flag in Apollo Client 2.0 that may help your use case here?

Might work. Context here is I prototyped a json dsl to do similar graph-like resolving right on top of a python app as a wsgi middleware. Worked pretty well right on the metal.

With this sort of graphql extension, having generic query power for restful clients is awesome. TBH I think that's pretty great compared to baking graphql clients.

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