Why We Rarely Use GraphQL (And When We Do)

GraphQL is a great tool. It is also the wrong default for 90 percent of the products we ship at Xenotix Labs ( https://www.xenotixlabs.com ). Here is our reasoning after 30+ production apps. When GraphQL wins GraphQL genuinely helps when (1) you have many different clients with very different data shape requirements, (2) your data has deep nested relationships that REST endpoints would over-fetch on, and (3) your team has the discipline to maintain a schema layer on top of your services. For Sho