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Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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this is the direction i've been wanting Netlify to go in for years! Netlify has done very well as an aggregator of frontend developers, and GraphQL is the perfect protocol to 1) build better tooling, which onegraph has a lot of ideas on, 2) commoditize their complements (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/).

i hope more updates keep coming (i want explorer in the UI! not the CLI!) but this is a positive start.

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

#13
Zapier on Steroids for programmers!

I like how Netlify went with a low-code approach that provides not only speed and flexibility, but also greatly helps with long-term maintenance. Web apps are now more connected and heterogenous than ever - there is a need to quickly and easily connect with various APIs. No-code falls short in providing performant and maintainable code bases. GraphQL-based tools could be the solution. Netlify seems to have taken the lead here. I only worry about potential vendor lock-in.

Congrats!

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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One of the founders of OneGraph here, happy to answer any questions or talk about ideas! This is what we have been working on since the Netlify acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253069 . Still early days and in beta, but excited to see all the DX pieces coming together bit by bit! When we did our original Launch HN (back in summer 2018! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602951 ) this was one of…

Congrats to the whole team!

Is it possible to add a custom (3rd party) GraphQL endpoint to Netlify Graph at this stage?

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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Can someone give some concrete example use cases for this? So you connect this to your Stripe or Spotify account and this lets your website visitors do something via client-side JavaScript?

There are quite a few, but as a recent public one - https://oss.love is built using Netlify Graph. It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example.

Another simple one would be building a chart of Salesforce opportunities to serve as an office sales gong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTaETEkZ6hE

We have customers who build a product using Netlify Graph to manage Salesforce leads/opportunities/etc. inside of Slack, etc.

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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this is the direction i've been wanting Netlify to go in for years! Netlify has done very well as an aggregator of frontend developers, and GraphQL is the perfect protocol to 1) build better tooling, which onegraph has a lot of ideas on, 2) commoditize their complements ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ ). i hope more updates keep coming (i want explorer in the UI! not the CLI!) but this…

Thanks!

The whole flow works really, really well inside of vscode with the GraphQL extension - you get autocomplete, docs, etc. And upon save, it's that same as if you had edited it in the web UI. It should even be compatible with the GraphiQL explorer extension inside of vscode (though I haven't tried it yet) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GabrielN...

And it's always tempting fate to say "we have more planned", but, well, we have more planned...

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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One of the founders of OneGraph here, happy to answer any questions or talk about ideas! This is what we have been working on since the Netlify acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253069 . Still early days and in beta, but excited to see all the DX pieces coming together bit by bit! When we did our original Launch HN (back in summer 2018! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602951 ) this was one of…

Congrats to the whole team! Is it possible to add a custom (3rd party) GraphQL endpoint to Netlify Graph at this stage?

It's technically possible on our backend, but we haven't opened it up in a user-facing way yet. Definitely high on the priority list though!

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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Just finished an episode of Learn with Jason showing how to use this to build a small Spotify app using the Netlify Graph tooling: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1299016321?t=0h25m21s (the link starts at the first step of the new app and dives right into the experience)

Jason knew next to nothing about the current state of Netlify Graph (to keep the experience authentic), so it's pretty fun to see his reactions.

Also, the app is live for anyone to use! https://netlify-graph-nextjs.netlify.app/SpotifySearchForm

Re: Netlify Graph: A faster way for teams to develop web apps with APIs

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One of the founders of OneGraph here, happy to answer any questions or talk about ideas! This is what we have been working on since the Netlify acquisition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253069 . Still early days and in beta, but excited to see all the DX pieces coming together bit by bit! When we did our original Launch HN (back in summer 2018! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602951 ) this was one of…

This is awesome. I've been abusing Zapier for years now as a middle layer to integrate with 3rd parties without having to implement their APIs. Zapier's UI is built for non-technical users, anad it makes a lot of advanced use cases very cumbersome to implement.. Super excited to try reimplementing some of our more complicated zaps with this! Are you all planning to implement as extensive of a collection of integratio…

Plenty of plans, now we just need to execute on 'em!
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