GraphQL: The Documentary

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realPubkey · 2022-05 · Recommendation

Watch this Honeypot documentation about GraphQL. Listen to what the developers tell which problems they had to solve when they invented GraphQL. You likely do not have any of these problems. [VIDEO]

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typingmonkey · 2020-07 · Recommendation

I recommend to watch the documentation about the facebook people that invented GraphQL [1]. Listen careful to which problems they solved with graphql, then think about the problems you have to solve for your application. Most of the time GraphQL is not worth its tradeoffs. [1] [VIDEO]

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namelosw · 2019-12 · Reference

> It is unclear that the total impact on performance would be significantly negative compared to the typical GraphQL API. Some of the problems also apply to GraphQL, people just need to constrain the query complexity in the end. But yeah, it would bite Datalog more if not designed well enough, and it's harder to tackle Datalog than to GraphQL. Other thoughts on this topic: I love GraphQL but I would love Datalog more if the toolchain is as good as GraphQL. There's a spectrum on API of simplicity and power -- on the left, there is HTTP/REST which could be seen as a primitive/naive way of describing API it's not consumer-driven at all. On the right there's Datalog which is a powerful way of describing API, it can maximize the flexibility of both the server and the client. Things like 'map' and 'filter' became well-known to average programmers not very long time ago, though the elite programmers already knew them well half a centry ago. Datalog is definitely a very good idea for API, but I'm afraid it wound't be as popular as GraphQL if Facebook chose this route instead. That being said, the industry always adopts things in a very passive manner, usually because the current solution is too painful to use, or almost couldn't solve the problem on new problem scale. There's a documentary[0] for GraphQL, the creators had enough of REST, they ended up with inventing GraphQL. It originally was to solving their data fetching problems, in the meantime it would solve others too. Meanwhil

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