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I'm curious about this. Do you think GraphQL makes things worse in its intended use case: allowing different clients to control how little or how much data they pull.

I have been, like you, baffled by places that insist on using GraphQL for a biz software website that they barely support on mobile, or an app-only product with limited to 0 web support. But for situations where you want both a robust mobile app (sometimes multiple), and a robust web app (sometimes multiple), I don't know if there's a better solution that keeps the frontends and one true backend decoupled as well?

Curious what you say or what I may have missed for this scenario.



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