graphql-go VS genqlient

And gqlgen is not alone in this. We found several more GraphQL frameworks that don’t take it upon themselves to address this problem. Widely used GraphQL server implementations, such as graphql-go/graphql and Python’s graphene, have the exact same gap of exposing messages of unexpected errors by default.

I have briefly looked into this and leaning towards GraphQL Go but don't yet know how it'll all come together. I'd prefer to stick with GraphQL if I can without it getting messy.

The tutorial uses the https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql

graphql-go. I use this to help me to implement the GraphQL.

I've done a bit of research and have found 99designs/gqlgen and graphql-go/graphql but I would like to hear from your experience.

Dude to readability and friendliness being my biggest concern, I decided to use https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql. First drawback I noticed is that you don’t have the option for a playground baked into your server. I’ve been using hoppscotch for testing my operations as a workaround. Only real struggle I faced was dealing with nullable arguments, but I grew to realize that it’s more of a feature

Best resource for learning stuff is the docs imo. The most popular library currently for graphql in Go is this one GitHub graphql-go/graphql.

For my current project we use ent (https://entgo.it) + gqlgen and its a really nice combo. As well as the two other popular graphql libraries for go (https://github.com/graphql-go/graphql and https://github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go), I’ve also kept my eyes on graphjin (https://github.com/dosco/graphjin) and thunder (https://github.com/samsarahq/thunder) but to me there is no reason to not use ent with gqlgen - it’s just so nice :)

gqlgen is GraphQL server library. There are some graphql libraries for golang such as graphql-go/graphql. But I selected gqlgen becuase I really like a point of generating code after I defined schema.

A GraphQL server as an API Gateway for REST endpoints using graphql-go/graphql

The client support in particular is currently very awkward. For instance, there's this discussion around Hasura in the Khan/genqlient repo: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/272

An example of a Snowflake API request using Go. This example uses the Go standard library, so it doesn’t require additional dependencies; however, in production, you could use a library like shurcooL/graphql or Khan/genqlient for stronger typing.

I also use https://github.com/Khan/genqlient in tandam with it to generate strongly typed graphql clients. Here is a decent example of a golang CLI using it: https://github.com/superfly/flyctl/tree/master/gql

You might also be interested in genqlient, which Khan Academy released earlier this year. It's closer to what you've done, though I don't think we support uploads because that isn't something we've needed to support.

If you want to just generate a client based on a schema, I highly recommend https://github.com/Khan/genqlient which we use at work.

Although it is supposedly not ready for production, I'm personally using https://github.com/Khan/genqlient from the Khan Academy folks.