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graphql-js
- Understanding TTFB Latency in DJango - Seems absurdly slow after DB optimizations even locally
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How to define schema once and have server code and client code typed? [Typescript]
When I asked this in StackOverflow over a year ago I reached the solution of using graphql + graphql-zeus.
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Uncovering Frontend Data Aggregation: Our Encounter with BFF, GraphQL, and Hydration
In short, we chose not to pursue GraphQL due to some limitations with union types and a lack of support for maps. This is further detailed in this link: limitations.
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Exploring the Most Commonly Used Folder Names in Popular NPM Packages
benchmarks: This directory contains benchmark tests that help measure the performance of the package's code, these tests can be are very useful when experimenting with performance optimizations, and to ensure no slowdowns are introduced between releases. Example from graphql.
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Apollo federated graph is not presenting its schema to graphiql with fields sorted lexicographically
GraphiQL (and many other tools) relies on introspection query which AFAIK is not guaranteed to have any specific order (and many libs don't support it). Apollo Server is built on top of graphql-js and it relies on it for this functionality.
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What are popular ORMs for Node.js?
GraphQL.js + Knex.js + knex-types (TypeScript generator for Knex)
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Announcing GraphQL Yoga 2.0!
Yoga v2 supports some experimental GraphQL features such as @defer and @stream, allowing you to get a taste of the future of GraphQL (with compatible clients such as URQL).
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11 JavaScript Examples to Source Code That Reveal Design Patterns In Use
Visitors are used for many reasons like extensibility, plugins, printing an entire schema somewhere, etc.
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How not to learn GraphQL
support for @defer and @stream
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TypeScript Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
> I have only seen null vs undefined lead to 2 things in my experience: mistakes and bikeshedding.
I disagree, though I think the implementation leaves something to be desired. Primarily, I think there is fundamentally a difference between the value of obj.bar in the following examples that is useful to differentiate between:
{ foo: 'hello' }
{ foo: 'hello', bar: null }
For example, GraphQL makes specific use of this when dealing with input types for mutations: null essentially means "delete this field" while unset means "don't change it".
There is a very good discussion on this topic here, https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/issues/133 , which goes into the rationale behind it, how it's supported in languages that do NOT differentiate between null and undefined, and how some folks changed their minds on the issue.
graphql-helix
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Apollo Layoffs
Depends on language, I've build GraphQL servers in a few, though mostly JavaScript and Python. For Python I used to use Graphene, these days I use Strawberry.
For JavaScript, I originally used graphql-js and express-graphql, as these were the original libraries and I was a literal day 1 adopter. All the libraries are essentially just wrappers around graphql-js, so it's still viable to use directly. But for schema-building I now use Pothos (https://pothos-graphql.dev/), I'd probably use graphql-helix as the http layer (https://github.com/contra/graphql-helix).
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Does Apollo GraphQL cost money to use in production? And other beginner questions about GraphQL
If you want a lower level graphql server https://graphql-helix.vercel.app/ or https://benzene.vercel.app/ might be worth checking out.
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Code-first schema definition
While there are many GraphQL server packages available, we need one that will play nicely with Nuxt3's server engine (Nitro / h3). In the spirit of keeping things extensible and framework-agnostic, GraphQL Helix seems like a really good choice. Let's add it to our project:
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What's next?
E.g. recently I found Graphql-helix, replaced apollo-server-micro with it and had never looked back ever since (incl. subscriptions), what else could be done better? Also in terms of DX
Looks interesting, have you tried graphql-helix?
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a first look at graphQL helix
GraphQL Helix is a framework and runtime agnostic collection of utility functions for building your own GraphQL HTTP server. Instead of providing a complete HTTP server or middleware plugin function, GraphQL Helix only provides a handful of functions for turning an HTTP request into a GraphQL execution result. You decide how to send back the response.
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Introducing Envelop - The GraphQL Plugin System
import { envelop, useSchema, useLogger } from '@envelop/core'; import fastify from 'fastify'; import { processRequest, getGraphQLParameters } from 'graphql-helix'; // This creates the `getEnveloped` function for us. Behind the scense the wrapped functions are created once, here. const getEnveloped = envelop({ plugins: [useSchema(schema), useLogger()], }); const app = fastify(); app.route({ method: ['POST'], url: '/graphql', async handler(req, res) { // Here we can pass the request and make available as part of the "context". // The return value is the a GraphQL-proxy that exposes all the functions. const { parse, validate, contextFactory, execute, schema } = getEnveloped({ req, }); const request = { body: req.body, headers: req.headers, method: req.method, query: req.query, }; const { operationName, query, variables } = getGraphQLParameters(request); // Here, we pass our custom functions to Helix, and it will take care of the rest. const result = await processRequest({ operationName, query, variables, request, schema, parse, validate, execute, contextFactory, }); if (result.type === 'RESPONSE') { res.status(result.status); res.send(result.payload); } else { // You can find a complete example with Subscriptions and stream/defer here: // https://github.com/contrawork/graphql-helix/blob/master/examples/fastify/server.ts res.send({ errors: [{ message: 'Not Supported in this demo' }] }); } }, }); app.listen(3000, () => { console.log(`GraphQL server is running...`); });
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Subscriptions and Live Queries - Real Time with GraphQL
Fortunately, we now have libraries like Graphql Helix, which, in my humble opinion, should replace express-graphql as the reference HTTP implementation since GraphQL Helix is also not tied to any web server framework.
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GraphQL - Diving Deep
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
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The Stack #1
Graphql Helix
What are some alternatives?
graphql-yoga - 🧘 Rewrite of a fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup, performance & great developer experience. The core of Yoga implements WHATWG Fetch API and can run/deploy on any JS environment.
apollo-server - 🌍 Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.
mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify
nestjs-graphql - GraphQL (TypeScript) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🍷
graphql-jit - GraphQL execution using a JIT compiler
express-graphql - Create a GraphQL HTTP server with Express.
graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.
envelop - Envelop is a lightweight library allowing developers to easily develop, share, collaborate and extend their GraphQL execution layer. Envelop is the missing GraphQL plugin system.
pothos - Pothos GraphQL is library for creating GraphQL schemas in typescript using a strongly typed code first approach
Postwoman - 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io
graphql-upload - Middleware and an Upload scalar to add support for GraphQL multipart requests (file uploads via queries and mutations) to various Node.js GraphQL servers.