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Apollo GraphQL
GraphQL server with the most overhead. Drop GraphQL, drop Apollo.
Apollo is the most popular GraphQL server implementation. It's also the most opinionated and heaviest — schema stitching, federation, caching layers, and a commercial platform that pushes you toward their cloud offering.
If GraphQL itself is in Drop, Apollo follows. The server adds complexity on top of a paradigm we've already moved away from. REST with TypeScript contracts gives you type safety without the resolver plumbing, schema management, and N+1 query problems that Apollo's DataLoader was designed to work around.
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