falcor vs apollo-ios

falcor

A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching (by Netflix)

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apollo-ios

📱 A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift. (by apollographql)

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falcor		apollo-ios
	Project
5	Mentions	6
10,429	Stars	3,833
0.2%	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	9.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
JavaScript	Language	Swift
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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falcor

Posts with mentions or reviews of falcor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-10.

Netflix Uses Java
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023

Interesting the article jumps straight from REST to GraphQL and forgets Falcor[0] - Netflix's alternative vision for federated services. For a while it looked like it might be a contender to GraphQL but it never really seemed to take off despite being simpler to adopt.
[0] https://netflix.github.io/falcor/
Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023

The business case seems to be to finally kill Falcor [1] which had a lot of similarities to GraphQL but a much smaller maintenance and developer community than GraphQL and I would assume looked a lot like tech debt to Netflix at this point.
[1] https://github.com/Netflix/falcor
Falcor: One Model Everywhere
1 project | /r/u_VirtualReadit | 29 Dec 2022
Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022

apollo-ios

Posts with mentions or reviews of apollo-ios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023

GraphQL queries are just HTTP POST queries with a JSON body. They're supported everywhere.
If you want specialized tooling for them, Kotlin and Swift both have great strongly-typed GraphQL libraries.
Apollo publishes libraries for both:
- https://www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/
- https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/
GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected
3 projects | /r/webdev | 15 Nov 2022
Awesome macOS Libraries List
76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022

apollo-ios - A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client. Language: Swift.
Apollo iOS 1.0 RFC - Swift Codegen
1 project | /r/graphql | 1 Oct 2021

RFC: apollo-ios/CodegenProposal.md at release/1.0-alpha-incubating · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub Example Generated Output: apollo-ios/Tests/ApolloCodegenTests/AnimalKingdomAPI/ExpectedGeneratedOutput at release/1.0-alpha-incubating · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub PR for discussion is here: [RFC] In Progress - Release 1.0 - Swift Codegen by calvincestari · Pull Request #1876 · apollographql/apollo-ios · GitHub
SwiftGraphQL - A GraphQL client for Swift lovers.
3 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2021

Apollo iOS, on the other hand, generates Swift types from queries in our "queries.graphql" files and supports caching out of the box. Generating types from the SDL is not per se a problem, but it becomes cumbersome and error-prone with large nested queries. Apollo iOS also strongly-binds the generated structures to your queries, making it almost impossible to translate fetched data into an internal state.
GraphQL - Diving Deep
47 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021

Apollo Client does have a good integration with these frameworks including React, iOS and Android — so, you might want to check that out

What are some alternatives?

When comparing falcor and apollo-ios you can also consider the following projects:

risingwave - SQL stream processing, analytics, and management. We decouple storage and compute to offer speedy bootstrapping, dynamic scaling, time-travel queries, and efficient joins.

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

graphql-bench - A super simple tool to benchmark GraphQL queries

Moya - Network abstraction layer written in Swift.

dataloader - DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application's data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.

AFNetworking - A delightful networking framework for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

graphql-spec - GraphQL is a query language and execution engine tied to any backend service.

swift-graphql - A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL.

Spring Boot - Spring Boot

protobuf-swift - Google ProtocolBuffers for Apple Swift

apollo-android - :robot: A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for the JVM, Android, and Kotlin multiplatform.

Netfox - A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / OSX network debugging library! 🦊