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The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
The API database architecture - Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
Essential for the architecture is the conceptual split between data retrieval via HTTP GET and data-modifying requests which use the HTTP-verbs POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, or a different, non-HTTP mechanism. Data modification can be modeled using PostgREST by exposing stored procedures as POST endpoints, but I recommend using that capability only sparingly and instead developing business logic traditionally in the backend. While the API database architecture supports combining and aggregating resources in an equally or more flexible way, the data modification side of GraphQL cannot be easily replaced.
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