Why would I pick Phoenix Channels over a GraphQL API, or the other way around?

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I can sort of ‘feel’ when I should use one over the other, but I’m interested in a more merit-based approach when picking between the two.

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This compares apples to oranges. Please, maybe restate your question or elaborate on what you mean exactly.

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Agreed. Phoenix channels are a moderately low level API for sending messages over a websocket connection. GraphQL is a way to query data. You can do GraphQL over phoenix channels too so it’s pretty orthogonal.

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