Are there good alternatives to Apollo at all?
Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
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#72Are there good alternatives to Apollo at all?
There's lots of alternatives, but whether they are good or not depends on your use case:
- Relay by Facebook, it's own GraphQL client: https://facebook.github.io/relay/
- Urql by FormidableLabs, an effort to build a simple React GraphQL client that covers the 80% use case: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/urql
- GraphQL Request by Prisma, a minimal, universal GraphQL client: https://github.com/prisma/graphql-request
Plus a variety of smaller ones like Lokka (https://github.com/kadirahq/lokka), FetchQL (https://github.com/gucheen/fetchql) and micro-graphql-react (https://github.com/arackaf/micro-graphql-react).
It's all about the tradeoffs you want to make: if you're building a React app your can't go wrong with Relay or Urql, if you're writing one-off (universal) scripts graphql-request is probably your best choice, etc.
Re: Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
#73I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I'm building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) - it's kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway. GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it's definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications. The thing about GraphQL is that it's middleware.…
GraphQL to REST is a more typical comparison. In this case: designing a GraphQL API is substantially easier to both make and consume; while REST just tells you "here's some guidelines, now go do it however you want", GraphQL enforces a much more consistent view of how an API should look, while allowing clients much more freedom in how they get the data they need. Where you start running into issues is the surrounding…
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#77I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I'm building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) - it's kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway. GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it's definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications. The thing about GraphQL is that it's middleware.…
Not necessarily, on small projects that are being rapidly developed it's very common that you need to change many times the data structures returned by api, as front-end is iterating on the design and ideas and figures out the new pieces of data that they need. Mapping the results of DB queries into complex structures & entities, and juggling it to fit the latest needs of front-end/app devs used to take a big chunk of my back-end dev time (and nerves). GraphQL can extremely simplify and speed up these iterations.
Re: Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
#78I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I'm building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) - it's kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway. GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it's definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications. The thing about GraphQL is that it's middleware.…
Did you use AWS Amplify?
I had the impression it was like Firebase for quick prototypes (saw someone build a product in only 4h once), but you get CloudFormation templates out of it, which makes it much more flexible in the long run, when you customize more and more.
Re: Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
#79I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I'm building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) - it's kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway. GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it's definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications. The thing about GraphQL is that it's middleware.…
Hard disagree for many cases. GraphQL APIs are free with db reflection tools--ga ga ga ga GREAT for prototyping. Shoutout to postgraphile.
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Re: Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
#80I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I'm building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) - it's kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway. GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it's definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications. The thing about GraphQL is that it's middleware.…
Hard disagree for many cases. GraphQL APIs are free with db reflection tools--ga ga ga ga GREAT for prototyping. Shoutout to postgraphile.
Thanks!