Hot Chocolate VS GraphQL for .NET

have a look here https://youtu.be/qrh97hToWpM https://chillicream.com/

There are some libraries which allows you to declare some class with more or less arbitrary methods which will be called by it at runtime. I believe many of them do that in optimal way, not just using usual reflection. One of the examples is HotChocolate library https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate . You declare class with arbitrary methods which contain arbitrary arguments. "Arbitrary" doesn mean arbitrary at all, but if parameter type is registered in DI or marked by specific attribute, it can be passed to the method.

At work we are considering using GraphQL to build our read-only data-APIs using .NET 6, EF Core and SQL Server. Looking at the ecosystem the most relevant plattforms seems to be graphql-dotnet and ChilliCream.

I'm starting a brand new project. Looks like if we want to do GraphQL in .NET, it's either graphql-dotnet or Hot Chocolate. Both look pretty good on paper.

If you know it better: Please try statically typed generated graphql queries in C# (like write the graphql queries, have a graphql schema, then get generated C# types which resemble the query, the only thing I've found that could do it was https://chillicream.com/docs/strawberryshake and there I quickly hit this bug with super simple queries containing unions: https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate/issues/4662

If you don't know Hot Chocolate framework, feel free to read about it on chillicream.com (official website) and feel free to join the great community (which is always willing to help) on slack

I love using Hot Chocolate in C# ❤

Hotchocolate GraphQL server. This is the most advanced server for a .Net environment. This article does not go into the basics and assumes some framework knowledge.

I think for the time being that's the case, yeah. I'm confirming with the great people over at https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate to see if we can somehow work around that.

The way that’s done in Visualizer is quite specific to my needs and to the library that I’m using, called GraphQl-Dotnet.

I'm starting a brand new project. Looks like if we want to do GraphQL in .NET, it's either graphql-dotnet or Hot Chocolate. Both look pretty good on paper.

This is a template API using Clean Architecture alongside a .net implementation of GraphQL.

Customising the default ParallelExecutionStrategy is harder though. The best way to achieve this is to take the existing source code and modify it. The key section we need to modify is the last part of the try/catch in ExecuteNodeTreeAsync:

Because it can depend on the context. I know the PHP Laravel integration for GraphQL I used was leveraging the Carbon interface instead of PHP's native Date type. In NestJS the integrated solution allows you to choose whether to use UNIX timestamps or ISO datetimes. TypeGraphQL does something similar if I'm not wrong, and the .NET library added a bunch of date-related scalars in a PR they made for v2.

If you're loving your current stack, you should stick with it :) But, if you're experiencing some of the problems described in the article, you might want to try Apollo. It's incrementally adoptable, so you don't have to rewrite your whole app to start using it. There's also a community maintained .NET implementation of GraphQL, so you could use that for your graph and use Apollo Client to connect it to the frontend.