a first look at graphQL helix

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  • graphql-helix

    A highly evolved GraphQL HTTP 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.

  • apollo-server

    🌍  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.

  • Daniel Rearden listed the following reasons pushing him to create Helix, believing that these factors were absent from popular solutions like Apollo Server, express-graphql and Mercurius:

  • 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.

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  • serverless-graphql

    Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo

  • The Serverless Framework is an open source framework for building applications on AWS Lambda. It provides a CLI for developing and deploying AWS Lambda functions, along with the AWS infrastructure resources they require.

  • express-graphql

    Discontinued Create a GraphQL HTTP server with Express.

  • Daniel Rearden listed the following reasons pushing him to create Helix, believing that these factors were absent from popular solutions like Apollo Server, express-graphql and Mercurius:

  • mercurius

    Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify

  • Daniel Rearden listed the following reasons pushing him to create Helix, believing that these factors were absent from popular solutions like Apollo Server, express-graphql and Mercurius:

  • FROM node:14-alpine LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source https://github.com/ajcwebdev/graphql-helix-docker WORKDIR /usr/src/app COPY package*.json ./ RUN npm i COPY . ./ EXPOSE 8080 CMD [ "node", "index.js" ]

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