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REST APIs are still relevant and aren’t going to become obsolete when you wake up tomorrow. A majority of the web is still structured in a RESTful manner. However, GraphQL is making headway into the development world as more and more developers adopt it into their application building process.

GraphQL has been around since 2012 but just started to gain traction in the past few years as developers look for ways to increase their output and overall productivity. REST will still be around, but the space of data access and controls is being shared with GraphQL as the query language becomes more mainstream.