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regularfry on Dec 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: From Node to Ruby on Rails

Anywhere you see graphql, you see someone who's rejected hypermedia.

coldtea on Dec 17, 2021 [–]

Not sure I follow. GraphQL is a way to ask for data from the backend. What does it have to do with the client layer?

regularfry on Dec 17, 2021 | [–]

It's generally used as a replacement for REST, which, if done properly, uses hypermedia.

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