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This has very little to do with graphql. The DRF is to get a solid json api up and running quickly. The standard it ships with conforms to the http://jsonapi.org/ spec. Which came mostly from the Rails community and many projects built in different stacks conform to.

If you're familiar with Rails it's like https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api which was recently merged into Rails in v5.

You could totally add a graphql endpoint to any api `/graphql?[your GQL query here]`. We're currently exploring adding that to our Django/DRF backend with one of these https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-graphql#lib-py



Standard DRF is nothing like the JSON API spec.


This is true. My mistake. At our company we added https://github.com/django-json-api/django-rest-framework-jso... to get DRF conformant to jsonapi spec.




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