How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha

Re:How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha by GordonS on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:14PM (#23490370)

Yeah, I just don't get it - even if you use GraphQL, you're going to have to do server-side code to make the calls to the different backends.

Maybe it's just that the backend devs in my last project werenyevery good, but the backend GraphQL code was ridiculously complex and impossible to reason about.

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Re:How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha by andrewingram on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:11PM (#23493324)

It's easy to write an incomprehensible GraphQL server the first time you try it, but it's by no means an innate trait of the technology. Assuming your downsteam APIs are done well, it should be possible to write a GraphQL server which is easy to reason about and has predictable performance (largely on par with what you'd get if you built the endpoints by hand).

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