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There are existing frontend tools that can compose GraphQL but only string builders can compose SQL, AFAIK; it also seems to act as a "paper over the underlying database specifics" by using what seems to be MongoDB-esque criteria: https://github.com/dosco/graphjin/wiki/Guide-to-GraphQL#othe... meaning the consumer need not know the postgres-vs-mysql-isms (in theory, of course)
Also, don't overlook the whiz-bang of the GraphQL introspection tooling -- it's super handy for just kicking the tires on something in ways that "dump the SQL schema to the browser" likely wouldn't do
The related pg_graphql posted a while back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430720) actually mentions GraphJin positively, and talks about a bunch of competing implementations, although it's not one-to-one with GraphJin because it seems to support mysql whereas pg_graphql is of course a PG extension
If you're looking for something like GraphJin, PostGraphile or Hasura but with less boilerplate and complexity, more end-to-end typesafe approach and optimistic updates, check out Thin Backend https://thin.dev/ (https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend)
Thin Backend takes a bit more of a higher level approach to database operations than services like GraphJin, but solves fundamentally the same problem. Doing things in a more structured way also allows us to do things like optimistic updates by default that require manual work with GraphQL tools.
To see some code examples, here's a small example project done with thin-backend: https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend-todo-app It's running on Vercel here: https://thin-backend-todo-app.vercel.app/
This is called PostgREST: https://postgrest.org/. Never used it in production, but PostgREST leverages multiple PostgreSQL features: row-based security, schemas, authorizations, etc. I quite like PostgREST, and I'd use it for internal stuff.
If you're looking for something like GraphJin, PostGraphile or Hasura but with less boilerplate and complexity, more end-to-end typesafe approach and optimistic updates, check out Thin Backend https://thin.dev/ (https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend)
Thin Backend takes a bit more of a higher level approach to database operations than services like GraphJin, but solves fundamentally the same problem. Doing things in a more structured way also allows us to do things like optimistic updates by default that require manual work with GraphQL tools.
To see some code examples, here's a small example project done with thin-backend: https://github.com/digitallyinduced/thin-backend-todo-app It's running on Vercel here: https://thin-backend-todo-app.vercel.app/
Sounds close to FastAPI[1]. Anyone know of equivalent / better frameworks in other languages?
[1]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
Check out some of the generated queries this extension [1] pumps out and you might have an answer.
[1] https://github.com/supabase/pg_graphql
We use not so much frameworks but combination of lightweight libraries:
- runtime assertions [0] - to map unknown values at i/o boundary into statically typed code (rpc input parameters, sql results etc)
- template based sql combinators to sanitize sql/generate sql [1]
- jsonrpc over websockets - for bidirectional comms between f/e and b/e
[0] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/assert-combinators
[1] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/tsql