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Re:PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API for PostgreSQL Database by piaste on Monday January 15, 2018 @04:16PM (#16153529)
You're thinking of code-first ORMs (to use the EF terminology), where you write classes and the tool maps them to tables and queries.

These GraphQL tools, however, act a lot like a database-first ORM, where you provide a database and the tool generates code in a different paradigm (OO for ORMs, Graph QL here). It is indeed the opposite direction, but ORMs can work that way too.

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Re:PostGraphile Instant GraphQL API for PostgreSQL Database by SwellJoe on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:08AM (#16156182)
Yeah, I guess GraphQL is delivering JSON "objects". Nonetheless, developing for it is a completely different experience from any other ORM I've ever poked at (not saying it's better, just very different).
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