In the last few years, GraphQL becomes a popular choice to build an API. It serves a great alternative to the REST APIs approach. Not only it is an open source application-layer query language, in comparison to REST, GraphQL fulfills the approach that a client request's only the desired set of information from the server in a single request.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.crowdbotics.com/build-a-twitter-clone-server-with-apollo-graphql-nodejs-and-crowdbotics/