To GraphQL or not to GraphQL? Pros and Cons

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  • graphql-query-complexity

    GraphQL query complexity analysis and validation for graphql-js

    The problem is that those queries are not prevented by commonly available rate limiters. You can send a single request to a GraphQL server that completely overwhelms the servers. To prevent such queries to GraphQL APIs, I wrote graphql-query-complexity, an extensible open-source library that detects such queries and rejects pathological queries before consuming too many resources on the server. You can assign each field a complexity value, and queries that exceed a threshold will be rejected. In Slicknode this protection is added automatically based on the number of nodes that are being returned.

  • graphql-relay-php

    A library to help construct a graphql-php server supporting react-relay.

    I have ported a library to create Relay compatible GraphQL APIs from JavaScript to PHP

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • starter-nextjs-blog

    NextJS + Slicknode Headless GraphQL CMS blog starter kit

    I have built thousands of GraphQL APIs in the process of creating Slicknode (https://slicknode.com), a framework and headless CMS to rapidly create GraphQL APIs

  • dataloader

    DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application's data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.

    This is also related to the N+1 problem, where nested queries make the number of database requests explode. If you want to learn more about this problem, I recommend this video and checking out dataloader, a library released by Facebook to help with batching queries and solving this problem.

  • foundation

    GraphQL Foundation Charter and Legal Documents (by graphql)

    The official website describes GraphQL as "A query language for your API". The process is explained as "Describe your data ➜ Ask for what you want ➜ Get predictable results".

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