Building JSON APIs in Django

The encoding difference between HTM and JSON is almost nailed, like, In terms of size. And it can often feel faster because you don't have a lot of JavaScript living between the HTML and the actual DOM itself. The reason why GraphQL is becoming so popular is because if you try to build an API without a powerful expressive query language like that inJSON, your front end developers are going to ask for like a thousand different endpoints for all their real needs in the app. It's got to have these fields and it's got to be just, the feedback cycle there is just painful and difficult as well. So one of the really nice things about using something like XMX is that