# The Discourse API in GraphQL **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [17 Marzo 2016, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-api-in-graphql/41183 "2016-03-17T09:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![fantasticfears](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fantasticfears/32/119608_2.png) [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)\ **Post date:** [17 Marzo 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-api-in-graphql/41183/2 "2016-03-17T10:46:01Z")
The article is decent as it shows the problem in the REST. I am wondering the next post in the series.. The problem comes to GraphQL may be that there is no robust backend solution for GraphQL. It’s nearly write SQL in GraphQL which made it hard to parse. GraphQL has been released almost a year and I didn’t hear famous backend solutions. But some startup are using GraphQL to power their React infrastructure. While Discourse has several complicated endpoints to hide the details. It will be just so hard to write the backend… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-api-in-graphql/41183)._