graphql-subscriptions VS apollo-server

Compare graphql-subscriptions vs apollo-server and see what are their differences.

graphql-subscriptions

:newspaper: A small module that implements GraphQL subscriptions for Node.js (by apollographql)

apollo-server

šŸŒ Ā 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. (by apollographql)
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graphql-subscriptions apollo-server
7 64
1,575 13,639
-0.1% 0.3%
4.6 9.2
2 months ago about 15 hours ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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graphql-subscriptions

Posts with mentions or reviews of graphql-subscriptions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-04.
  • three ways to deploy a serverless graphQL API
    13 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    graphql-yoga is built on other packages that provide functionality required for building a GraphQL server such as web server frameworks like express and apollo-server, GraphQL subscriptions with graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws, GraphQL engine & schema helpers including graphql.js and graphql-tools, and an interactive GraphQL IDE with graphql-playground.
  • Subscriptions and Live Queries - Real Time with GraphQL
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    The most common used (but not best maintained) library for such a PubSub engine in the GraphQL context is graphql-subscriptions. There are also adapters available for more distributed systems (where all GraphQL API replicas must be notified about the event) e.g. over Redis.
  • GraphQL over WebSockets
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    During that work, we created and merged the reference implementation into graphql-js and created two supporting libraries: graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws. Here is a talk with deep dive into all the details.
  • Using useSWR as an alternative to Subscriptions?
    8 projects | /r/nextjs | 16 Jul 2021
    The Prisma / GraphQL-Yoga comes with Subscriptions, and this was the first thing I came across when my client asked for realtime updates. The implementation was quite difficult - took me a long time. Eventually, it was working locally, and in staging. However, when it came to the production environment, for some reason it just didn't work! This unfortunately ended up with a user losing an auction, which ultimately went to court etc.
  • GraphQL subscriptions not working consistently
    2 projects | /r/graphql | 17 May 2021
    There are also other solutions available: https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-subscriptions#pubsub-implementations
  • Build a chat app with GraphQL Subscriptions & TypeScript: Part 2
    4 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021
    First, let's try to understand what PubSub is exactly. Apollo Server uses a publish-subscribe (pub/sub) model to track events that update subscriptions. The graphql-subscriptions library included in all apollo-server packages (including middleware integrations) provides a PubSub class as a basic in-memory event bus.
  • GraphQL the Simple Way, or: Don't Use Apollo
    8 projects | dev.to | 2 Sep 2020
    To add this, I can just expand the basic setup above. To do so, I do actually use a couple of small Apollo modules! Most can be picked and configured independently. For this case, graphql-subscriptions provides a little bit of pubsub logic that works within resolvers, and subscriptions-transport-ws integrates that into Express to handle the websockets themselves. Super helpful

apollo-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of apollo-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing graphql-subscriptions and apollo-server you can also consider the following projects:

mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify

graphql-mesh - The Graph of Everything - Federated architecture for any API service

nestjs-graphql - GraphQL (TypeScript) module for Nest framework (node.js) šŸ·

graphql-yoga - šŸ§˜ 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.

express-graphql - Create a GraphQL HTTP server with Express.

graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.

graphql-helix - A highly evolved GraphQL HTTP Server šŸ§¬

graphql-shield - šŸ›” A GraphQL tool to ease the creation of permission layer.

graphql-jit - GraphQL execution using a JIT compiler

TypeGraphQL - Create GraphQL schema and resolvers with TypeScript, using classes and decorators!

graphql-helix-docker

graphql-cost-analysis - A Graphql query cost analyzer.