&gt; so that the front-end designer can decide which calls to make, and whether requesting [field2] is worth the cost.<p>How is this different in essence from an annotation?<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting if you want to have guarantees that your front end engineer doesn&#x27;t fuck up your performance terribly by making bad queries without them being analyzed or whatever, you can take the stored query approach (this is what facebook does - also good for preventing accidental data leaks) where you store each usable graphql query in a database, and hardcode the query&#x27;s ID into your application rather than the query itself.