REST has long been a popular architectural paradigm for creating APIs, but GraphQL's rise in popularity in recent years has put REST's reign in jeopardy.
When it comes to establishing or leveraging API architecture design, the debate between GraphQL and REST is raging, and most firms are split between the two. While REST is generally recognized as the industry standard for creating APIs, GraphQL has been heralded as a new technology capable of overcoming REST's limitations. REST and GraphQL are two data retrieval technologies. The main distinction between GraphQL and RestAPIs is that GraphQL is a query language standard, whereas REST is an architectural idea for network-based computing.