Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
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Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#2Hey guys,
This is Michael from the Scaphold team.
We are excited to officially launch today and would love to hear any and all feedback on the platform.
A little about us. We are a member of this summer's YC Fellowship class and are pumped to be moving full steam ahead with Scaphold. Over the past few years, my co-founder and I have built numerous REST APIs to back services ranging social music apps to community book swapping programs. Each time, we found that we were running into many of the same problems and building much of the same thing over and over again. We used REST because we didn't know any other way, but something was definitely left to be desired. Last year, after reading a HN post on this little thing called GraphQL, we knew this was the future. A few months later, we set out to build the world's most powerful GraphQL-as-a-Service platform and today we are sharing it with you.
Thank you HN for the support and we can't wait to see what you build!
PS. If you are an experienced React or Relay dev we would love to hear from you as your feedback would invaluable to us. You can connect on our Slack page here (https://scapholdslackin.herokuapp.com) or via our the chat tool on our homepage.
Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#3Congrats to Michael and Vince, looks great. Are there any other GraphQL backend services out there, and if so how will you guys differentiate?
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#4Has anybody figured out how you do caching and cache invalidation on the client with GraphQL if every page is requesting slightly different forms of the same data? Seems like it is a bigger win to just download the 400 friends once and let the pages use the data they need instead of downloading the 400 friends 10 different ways.
My particular app is read heavy and so I can eliminate the majority of the server calls altogether via caching. While GraphQL would help me fetch only the data I need on each page and decouple the data access, I don't see how I reuse objects across pages without interrogating the GraphQL queries. I haven't given it all that much thought though so maybe I'm missing something.
Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#5Hey guys, This is Michael from the Scaphold team. We are excited to officially launch today and would love to hear any and all feedback on the platform. A little about us. We are a member of this summer's YC Fellowship class and are pumped to be moving full steam ahead with Scaphold. Over the past few years, my co-founder and I have built numerous REST APIs to back services ranging social music apps to community book…
On your docs page you write "We think it's probably easier to show you. Watch us make HackerNews in under 10 minutes!" but you didn't embed the video. Could we get a link?
Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#6Has anybody figured out how you do caching and cache invalidation on the client with GraphQL if every page is requesting slightly different forms of the same data? Seems like it is a bigger win to just download the 400 friends once and let the pages use the data they need instead of downloading the 400 friends 10 different ways. My particular app is read heavy and so I can eliminate the majority of the server calls a…
I think is worth to take a look into Facebook's dataloader. Instead of having a caching mechanism (likve Varnish) in your HTTP layer, you could have it in your GraphQL backend.
Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#7Hey guys, This is Michael from the Scaphold team. We are excited to officially launch today and would love to hear any and all feedback on the platform. A little about us. We are a member of this summer's YC Fellowship class and are pumped to be moving full steam ahead with Scaphold. Over the past few years, my co-founder and I have built numerous REST APIs to back services ranging social music apps to community book…
Congrats on the launch! It's great seeing how fast GraphQL community is growing/evolving.
What language are you using on the backend?
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#8Congrats, it looks awesome :)
Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#9Hey guys, This is Michael from the Scaphold team. We are excited to officially launch today and would love to hear any and all feedback on the platform. A little about us. We are a member of this summer's YC Fellowship class and are pumped to be moving full steam ahead with Scaphold. Over the past few years, my co-founder and I have built numerous REST APIs to back services ranging social music apps to community book…
On your docs page you write "We think it's probably easier to show you. Watch us make HackerNews in under 10 minutes!" but you didn't embed the video. Could we get a link?
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Re: Show HN: Scaphold.io – A full GraphQL back end in under 5 minutes
#10Hey guys, This is Michael from the Scaphold team. We are excited to officially launch today and would love to hear any and all feedback on the platform. A little about us. We are a member of this summer's YC Fellowship class and are pumped to be moving full steam ahead with Scaphold. Over the past few years, my co-founder and I have built numerous REST APIs to back services ranging social music apps to community book…
On your docs page you write "We think it's probably easier to show you. Watch us make HackerNews in under 10 minutes!" but you didn't embed the video. Could we get a link?
Yes absolutely! We will update the docs asap! You can find the video on the home page as well as on youtube here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8pnYd6jPQ).
We were actually able to get everything started in under 5 minutes!