examples VS Hasura

StepZen is a platform to build and deploy GraphQL APIs that integrates and aggregate data from various sources. In the demo section, I will show how to build a GraphQL API in declarative code using StepZen.

Great! With this, we've implemented the login flow using Auth0 and StepZen. You can find the complete source code for this blog post on GitHub.

The final step is to use GraphQL. We'll create a free account on StepZen. Once logged-in, we can access the Account, Admin Key and API Key.

You can find a complete example of using StepZen to implement the Authorization Code flow in the StepZen GitHub repository.

Have a look at https://stepzen.com, which allows you to federate any data source no matter the framework or service used to create it. It has a generous free tier

When moving away from Apollo Server, and you're looking for a replacement built with JavaScript or TypeScript, let me give you some options. If you want to keep building your GraphQL API schema first, you might want to consider Mercurius (which relies on Fastify) or GraphQL Yoga. If you're going to build your GraphQL API code or resolver first, have a look at TypeGraphQL or Nexus. Alternatively, there are great GraphQL-as-a-Service solutions such as StepZen in case you no longer want to build, maintain and host your own GraphQL API.

But you can also build a GraphQL API using a code-first GraphQL server library. This means you can write the resolvers and then generate the schema from the resolvers. Code-first libraries are much closer to tRPC in terms of Developer Experience but still more challenging than using a GraphQL-as-a-service like StepZen.

After installing, you can choose to run StepZen locally using Docker or in the cloud by signing up for a free account at stepzen.com. For this example, we'll be using the cloud version, for which you can sign up for a free account using your GitHub account.

StepZen is participating in Hacktoberfest, and you can contribute by adding a new integration or improving an existing integration in our Examples repository. Every PR to this repository will count towards your Hacktoberfest goals.

To get a GraphQL using StepZen, you can connect your data source or use one of the pre-built examples from Github. In this post, we'll be taking a GraphQL API created on top off a MySQL database from the examples. By cloning this repository to your local machine, you'll get a set of configuration files and .graphql files containing the GraphQL schema. To run the GraphQL API and deploy it to the cloud, you need to be using the StepZen CLI.

> 2. ORMs do not hide SQL nastiness.

This is certainly true!

I mean: ORMs are now well known to "make the easy queries slightly more easy, while making intermediate queries really hard and complex queries impossible".

I think the are of ORMs is over. It simply did not deliver.

If a book on SQL is --say-- 100 pages, a book on Hibernate is 400 pages. So much to learn just to make the easy queries slightly easier to type? Just not worth it.

I prefer jooq any day over ORMs. And dont get me started over what tools like Hasuna have to offer.

There are also some languages (forgot the names) that are SQL-done-right. Select in the back, more type safe, more logic, more in the same steps as the query gets executed. These need to be adopted by PG and MySQL and we're good to go. (IMHO)

https://www.jooq.org/

https://hasura.io/

[4] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/architecture/live-queries.md

Another strategy is to model access control declaratively and enforce it in the application layer. ZenStack (built above Prisma ORM) and Hasura are good examples of this approach. The following code shows how access policies are defined with ZenStack and how a secured CRUD API can be derived automatically.

Today, this ecosystem is going strong with new providers like Hasura, AppWrite and Supabase powering millions of projects. There are a few reasons people choose this style of hosting, especially if they are more comfortable with frontend development. BaaS lets them set up a database in a secure way, expose some business logic on top of the data, and connect via a dev-friendly SDK from their app or website code to save data easily. These modern tools build a blend of managed database with curated plugins such as authentication, great admin dashboards, and function as a service type capability - all in one package, and often offered as a integrated hosted service.

Hi! If you’ve ever thought about something like using GraphQL for something like this.. You might like Hasura. (Obligatory I work for Hasura)

We’ve got an OpenAPI import and you can setup cron-jobs or one-off jobs and do things like load in headers from the environment variables to pass through. There isn’t currently an easy journey for chaining multiple calls together without writing any code at all, but you can wrap pretty much any API endpoint via OpenAPI import or a custom action, and you can even make minor edits to things like the API contract format to change aliases/naming.

Our goal is to join all the things, databases and API’s. Most people know us for instant GraphQL API’s that give you CRUD on your database, but we also wrap APIs.

Not sure if something like this would fit your use-case and do check out some of the other things mentioned, but depending what you are trying to do I think Hasura might potentially work.

You can find out more here: https://hasura.io

Nested Mutation - 113 thumbs up, and still open since 2019... another case of not listening to the users?

Hasura is an open-source real-time GraphQL API server with a strong authorization layer on your database. You can subscribe to database events via webhooks. It can combine multiple API servers into one unified graphQL API. Hasura is a great tool to build any CRUD GraphQL API. Hasura does not have any authentication mechanisms; e.g., you need an auth server to handle sign-up and sign-in.