Interesting that GraphQL is slowly gaining interest - I kind of thought the hype would fizzle out.
Good to also see Typescript making a foothold - it's a great alternative to pure JS.
Good to also see Typescript making a foothold - it's a great alternative to pure JS.
Having API documentation that is guaranteed not to go out of date with your code. Having a shared standard for describing your endpoints in a machine-consumable way. Being able to automatically generate typescript types from any schema (correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there's any tooling that would do the same for arbitrary REST APIs). Being able to get autocompletion when writing queries for free ^ Those were all things I didn't know I needed until I started using them, and like Typescript, it feels painful to go back to not having them