JavaScript Air: Transitioning from REST to GraphQL

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Episode 023 of the live JavaScript broadcast podcast. We've heard about GraphQL quite a bit. We know that there are problems with REST and GraphQL solves many of those problems. But now we have a new problem: Transitioning from REST to GraphQL. Let's talk about what it takes to do that well and how services need to adapt to this new way of thinking about data access.

We've heard about GraphQL quite a bit . We know that there are problems with REST and GraphQL solves many of those problems. But now we have a new problem: Transitioning from REST to GraphQL. Let's talk about what it takes to do that well and how services need to adapt to this new way of thinking about data access. KENT: And we're live with JavaScript Air. Hello, everyone! My name is Kent C. Dodds and I am your host for this JavaScript broadcast podcast, all about JavaScript and the web platform. Today, we are going to be talking about transitioning from REST to GraphQL. And maybe not just REST, but SOAP. We might be talking about SOAP. That'd be interesting, maybe not (laughs). But, yeah,…from javascriptair.com

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