Ask HN: What are some ways to structure APIs other than REST and GraphQL?

1 points by codeNoob 8y ago ↗ HN

I am a self-taught noob trying to plan the API for my first non-trivial project. The general consensus appears to be like that REST and graphQL are the only ways to structure APIs and GraphQL is better than Rest whenever you may need to make data intensive requests. How true is that?

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PaulHoule 8y ago ↗

The first paradigm of APIs was "Remote Procedure Call". In this case, the API call represents some specific action that you would like to take. This could involve modifying multiple linked or unlinked data records in a single transaction.

As for GraphQL, I'd say OData, SPARQL and other Linked Data protocols are competitors