To be honest, I find graphql syntax really weird. What you get back is json, why not make the query language json itself? So all the existing json processing tools on the frontend just work.<p>With the weird syntax, now you need a parser and checker, and you need to write some boilerplate for doing mutation syntax.<p>There’s a reason why everyone and their dog invented ORMs. So you could live in an object world and everything would just work. SQL translation magic would be just an abstraction.<p>GraphQl has some nice things, I.e you only fetch what you need, and the fact that that it exposes a service as a graph. However I’m not sold that it’s a big improvement over simple REST.