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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 looks interesting. I haven't got a clue what netlify does though. That's one truly useless homepage.

Netlify is a platform for static site hosting on CDNs, with the CI/CD to build those sites, and serverless/auth functions for serveside logic, plus local dev to emulate them. They coined the "Jamstack" architecture/movement which has helped frontend devs and agencies be more productive.

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

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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 soluti…

PM lead for the Ecosystem team @ Netlify. Thanks for the feedback! This is precisely the balance we are trying to strike - simple enough to solve core problems that are routine, and yet offering an exit hatch to go and code some additional stuff that you might need in your applications.

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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/…

> It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example.

Maybe I'm dense - but what is the value add here? I can pull data from github Api and build an app. Or I can pull data via netlify graph, from the github api, and build an app?

Does netlify provide the "server side" here, holding my github api keys, away from the browser that runs the app? Or something else?

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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…

Really awesome to see Netlify pick up OneGraph, Sean. I've always recommended it to people =)

Great to hear it Gavin, thank you for the kind words!

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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 Sean!

Thanks so much, Darby!

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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/…

> It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example. Maybe I'm dense - but what is the value add here? I can pull data from github Api and build an app. Or I can pull data via netlify graph, from the github api, and build an app? Does netlify provide the "server side" here, holding my github api keys, away from the browser that runs the app? Or something else?

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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…

(I'm a Zapier employee on the Dev Platform team; my comments are mine alone and don't necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer)

You may find the Zapier's developer platform useful. Instead of using pre-built integrations, you can develop and ship your own Node.js packages for private use. I've got a fleet of them that can do basically anything, but also play nice with the rest of the platform.

I'm not sure exactly what your pain points are here, but there's definitely an "escape hatch" for power users!

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