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450: Javascript-Driven Development?

Dec 10, 2024
39:57

Joël and Stephanie go back to fundamentals as they pick apart some recent conversations they’ve been having around the office.

Together they discuss the advantages of GraphQL over a REST API, how they utilise JSONB over a regular column or table, and the use-cases for and against a frontend framework like React.

But what’s the theme that ties all these conversations together?


The article mentioned in this episode was Why I’m over GraphQL

Your hosts for this episode have been thoughtbot’s own Stephanie Minn and Joël Quenneville.

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