REST vs. GraphQL – A search for evidence on which is better
I think this paper misses the point. If you're a front-end developer, if you have a robust graphql endpoint available to you it's unbelievably amazing and productive.But providing a robust graphql endpoint that is performant, scalable, secure, etc, is much more difficult than REST. GraphQL is optimizing for a different set of developers, and this paper only studied one group.