REST VS GRAPHQL VS GRPC
I am seeing a lot of posts about GRAPHQL is going to replace the REST. From my experience, it might not happen. Rest replaced the SOAP because of content-type. Rest supported JSON. That is the big milestone in terms of performance using data transfer. Data transfer has been reduced a lot using JSON instead of XML. Here REST and GRAPHQL using JSON as data transfer. Both will support microservice architecture. The difference is GRAPHQL using queries as part of the post method for all type of CRUD. Protocols and Verbs: REST is using the HTTP protocol. Directly we can access from the browser. It provides HTTP verbs for a different type of CRUD operation. Graphql is also using HTTP protocol. We can access via the playground or simple post API from the postman. It provides different names like Query and Mutation of CRUD operation. Authentication & Authorization: In Microservices architecture we can keep Authentication and Authorization at the gateway level or services level, or API lev