Understanding the Rise of GraphQL: GraphQL vs. a JSON DSL

It turns out that GraphQL is pretty awesome. I didn’t always see it that way. The first few times I ran across GraphQL, I was pretty skeptical of its touted benefits because the cost of putting together a GraphQL system seemed too high. It also seemed to me that all the benefits of GraphQL could still be achieved by just creating a custom JSON DSL (query language using JSON).

For example, a “read” query might look like this in GraphQL:

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