What are the benefits of using GraphQL than handles?

Question

API

Help me understand, plz, what are the advantages of using GraphQL instead of writing api with pens?
And, as far as I understood after reading, is this some kind of alternative for restfulapi, or what?
Please explain about the difference, and what are the advantages if you use it on the project, and not do api for your data with your hands.

Answer 1

The very first link in Google for "GraphQL REST" - Comparison of REST and GraphQL . At the end of the article, tags are listed, if you click on the "graphql" tag, 40 more similar publications will fall out.
Only I don't understand why you are contrasting the GraphQL data exchange form convention with writing "API handles". It doesn't matter what form of exchange you have chosen - SOAP, REST, GraphQL, you still have to write request handlers, no one will do anything for you automatically.

Answer 2

In simple words, what is Count Kuel's problem: https://tonsky.livejournal.com/309037.html