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I've been going through the cardano docs at https://developers.cardano.org/docs/get-started/ and have come across discussions around the cardano-wallet rest api and cardano-graphql implementation. I also saw that there are implement js implementations for cardanocli and cardano-wallet.

I'm currently playing with the platform but eventually I'm planning on building a service in React. What's the difference between the different interfaces and which is best to use?

For context I'm playing with a few ideas around minting ntf's and creating a new coin.

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  • I would recommend you to checkout github.com/StricaHQ/typhonjs, which is a pure js Cardano wallet library, which will be sufficient to creating mint transactions and much more
    – Prashanth S.
    May 13, 2022 at 13:41

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cardano-rest-api & cardano-graphql are backend components that you can use to run your own infrastructure to read data from the blockchain or submit transaction to via the rest api. Graphql, I believe is required to run in combination with cardano-db-sync.

cardanocli-js and cardano-wallet-js are JS libraries that correspond to cardano-cli and cardano-wallet. The cli can be used to create transactions manually, make queries against a cardano node instance for retrieving infos of addresses or also to generate verification and signing keys for payment or staking.

The wallet is primarily concerned about allowing to create/ restore HDR wallets based on mnemonic phrases.

I recommend reading the docs for each for more info.

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