GraphQL vs REST: What's The Difference And When To Use Which?

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GraphQL vs REST: they're both popular approaches to developing backend services. In this video I show you what the difference is between REST and GraphQL, how to build a basic API using either of these approaches and when to choose one over the other.

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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:37 What is REST?
2:35 Creating a REST service in Python
8:12 Issues with REST services
9:45 What is GraphQL?
11:01 Creating a GraphQL service in Python: scaffolding
14:19 GraphQL: defining types and queries
20:14 GraphQL: mutations
21:40 GraphQL: field resolvers
24:35 Limitations of GraphQL
25:56 GraphQL vs REST: when to use which?

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