transferred-stepzen-schemas VS graphql-helix

Go to stepzen.com and click on the start for free button.

Either way, I'm not too familiar with RxDB but looking at the docs you can also use StepZen to create the GraphQL layer that you use for replication. With StepZen you can build and deploy a GraphQL API based on multiple datasources (including MSSQL) in minutes. That way you only have to worry about building the logic that pulls and push replicates data to and from GraphQL. How you structure the MSSQL database would become the most important part of this project, to ensure a smooth replication.

There are multiple ways to get a GraphQL API on top off a Postgres database. If you want to have a GraphQL abstraction layer that runs as a hosted service and needs almost no code, have a look at StepZen. You can build a GraphQL API for the Postgres database by following the docs here. StepZen introspects the database (using stepzen import postgresql) and let it create the schema for you based on all the tables and columns of your database. Including a set of queries to get started with.

If you’re looking for a managed service, have a look atStepZen. You can combine multiple GraphQL schemas into one cloud GraphQL API. Instead of writing a gateway yourself, you can use SDL to merge different schemas. Besides GraphQL APIs you can also “federate” other data sources like SQL or REST

There are many of them, including StepZen which is language/framework agnostic and let you create a GraphQL server with GraphQL SDL only - in a declarative way

I’ve seen more products letting you join/merge GraphQL schemas independent of schema stitching or federation. Have a look at GraphQL Mesh or StepZen.

You can save yourself the hassle of having to build a GraphQL server, resolvers and database connections with StepZen (https://stepzen.com). It’s a product that is based solely on GraphQL SDL and you set the database connections with directives. Also, you can use it to connect other APIs

There is one thing I can say for sure: I love the spirit of open source. I've had a wonderful time working with open source communities of different sizes (e.g. Seneca-CDOT, StepZen, Appwrite, and Zulip). Fortunately, all of them are fantastic and patient with beginners.

If the only thing you're trying to do is converting a REST API to GraphQL, you should have a look at https://stepzen.com/

StepZen filed an issue about writing a GraphQL schema to integrate SpaceX REST API into their React application. I found this as an excellent opportunity for me to learn GraphQL.

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).

If you want a lower level graphql server https://graphql-helix.vercel.app/ or https://benzene.vercel.app/ might be worth checking out.

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:

Looks interesting, have you tried graphql-helix?

When using a JavaScript server, a convenient way to achieve this is with GraphQL Helix, which decouples the handling of the HTTP request from the GraphQL server. With Helix, we can have the routing logic be handled by a Node.js web framework (such as Express.js or Fastify), and then — depending on the requested path (i.e., the requested endpoint — we can provide the corresponding schema to the GraphQL server.

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.

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...`); });

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.

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

Graphql Helix