express-graphql VS graphql-spec

It looked a little janky but it actually worked fine. But then I needed file uploads. Something graphql-zeus does not support. So I had to create a small wrapper for the SDK created so that it worked. And then also express-graphql, the server I was using, was deprecated.

This seems like a minor deal unless you're not using Express as your web framework. And an important note here is that Express GraphQL is being deprecated by the GraphQL Foundation. So if you're using Express for a GraphQL API, you should move away from it anyway.

You might have seen other GraphQL server solutions where the schema is implemented by using a more programmatic approach. Here is an example of how schemas are implemented using the express-graphql library. (link: https://github.com/graphql/express-graphql)

I'm not sure where the "8MB limit" comes from but, indeed, there are issues like this where, in some implementations, the response size is limited to 100KB: https://github.com/graphql/express-graphql/issues/346

With Node I used express-graphql as opposed to something like Apollo because it's lighter and less heavy on resources compared to Apollo.

Daniel Rearden listed the following reasons pushing him to create Helix, believing that these factors were absent from popular solutions like Apollo Server, express-graphql and Mercurius:

Express GraphQL is a library for building production ready GraphQL HTTP middleware. Despite the emphasis on Express in the repo name, you can create a GraphQL HTTP server with any HTTP web framework that supports connect styled middleware. This includes Connect itself, Express and Restify.

If you are using Node.js there are a lot of implementations of GraphQL servers with a few being express-graphql, apollo-server, mercurius, graphql-helix and more. And if you are using other languages, you can see a great list here

express-graphql GitHub Repository

Not sure about other libraries but it's certainly not the case for express-graphql on node.js. You can tie the graphql endpoint to any method you like. On the site I work on, we have a graphql endpoint that only accepts GET requests in production and is thus cacheable by Cloudfront. In dev and staging we accept all requests so that GraphIQL works.

GraphQL's first draft release was 8 years ago. [1]

It's first non-draft release was 5 years ago. [2]

It's first release under a community foundation was 2 years ago. [3]

[1] https://spec.graphql.org/July2015/

[2] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/releases/tag/June201...

[3] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/releases/tag/October...

I'm a big believer in GraphQL (in fact, at time of writing I'm #2 contributor to the GraphQL spec itself) so it pains me that a tool I built doesn't always have easy ways to achieve the "versionless schema" design that GraphQL encourages when it comes to making significant breaking changes to your underlying database tables. (Personally, I think you should aim for your database schema itself to be versionless, but this is not always possible.) Of course you can build your PostGraphile schema over views instead of tables, but views have their own problems that I won't go into here…

I created a proposal for Map type but didn’t make it through.

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/pull/888

The issue with GraphQL is it tries to appease too many masters.

Similar to jsx. The language isn’t evolving.

The good thing is the spec is (almost) frozen, so there’s many implementations, the bad is it can encompass the flexibility of json schema can do.

Longer thread - Subscriptions RFC: Are Subscriptions and Live Queries the same thing?

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/284

You’ve probably figured it out by now, but for others who may be in a similar position; GraphQL is a specification (with various implementations) and you can read up on the spec here: https://spec.graphql.org/

If you're asking whether GraphQL supports anonymous objects that can be arbitrarily nested then no, it doesn't.

show this feature request some love https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/174

* Performance: It's just hard to track down what makes an operation slow. The waterfall nature of resolvers is a big contributor

[1] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/488

:::note GraphQL Union is available for Types only, not for Inputs. However, the oneOf directive will bridge the gap in the future.