I have mixed feelings about Apollo and GraphQL in general.<p>To go from mature backend frameworks with autogenerated REST APIs to manually writing a lot of boilerplate code just to get a _basic_ GraphQL API running is frustrating. Part of the blame goes to the marketing of GraphQL. For example, the tagline on graphql.org is "Describe your data | Ask for what you want | Get predictable results". That's all well and good, but it leaves out the large majority of the work you have to do. This describes the schema, the query, and the result; but what about all the resolver code you have to write? That's the painful part of the whole process, especially when you get to the point of writing field-level resolvers and integrating child objects (DataLoader, etc.).<p>And then on the frontend, Apollo is preaching for us to write client-side queries AND client-side resolvers to fetch data that's _already in the cache_. All of this just to read, for example, a single primitive value? This is just too much.