Lighthouse Alternatives

lighthouse reviews and mentions

• Eight Years of GraphQL
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2024

  It depends on whether your chosen platform can do it.

  If you're coding resolvers by hand, that is not fun. But for example the Lighthouse GraphQL layer for Laravel (it's a schema-first thing based on the Webonyx PHP GraphQL reference implementation) can do a lot of this for you using schema decorations.

  https://lighthouse-php.com

  It has where/filter/sort/pagination, automatic scope narrowing etc., and you have very little code (if any) beyond the graphql schema to set it up. It integrates brilliantly with the Eloquent query builder.

  One of the best applications for PHP IMO; it is really enormously productive.

• We no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2024

  I don't know a thing about LangChain so this is a real digression, but I often wonder if people who are critiquing GraphQL do so from the position of only having written GraphQL resolvers by hand.

  If so, it would make sense. But a GraphQL server-side that is based around the GraphQL Schema Language is another matter entirely.

  I've written several applications that started out as proofs of concept and have evolved into production platforms based on this pairing:

  https://lighthouse-php.com

• Go with PHP
  19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2023
• how to display constantly changing data from a database in real time
  1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 8 Feb 2023
• Question: Laravel with Lighthouse graphql: Problems with resolvers
  1 project | /r/laravel | 21 Nov 2022

  I am starting a new Laravel project with Lighthouse and have been problems with resolving non root fields. According to the documentation here for each of the fields that have complex types, there should be a model and a query provided for the field. So in this example I have a Version object which has two subfields: appVersion and apiVersion. Here is what I have in my schema.graphql file: ``` type Query { version: Version }

• Give me your honest opinion - REST or GraphQL?
  1 project | /r/laravel | 24 Oct 2022

  Those are the two main differences between GQL and REST. I can't tell you if it is suitable for your project, but now I hope you can make an informed decision. Also, for the idea that "GraphQL feels more aligned with creating a backend in Node," that's just BS. GraphQL is not aligned with any particular language, and the official project page lists various implementations. For Laravel specifically, you may want to look at the Lighthouse project.

• Is having multiple different API resources for the same model, each doing things slightly different, a bad practice or an indication of bad design?
  1 project | /r/laravel | 7 Sep 2022

  It may be beyond the scope of what you’re willing to do at this point, but I would consider switching to a GraphQL API. Gives your frontend a lot of flexibility in what data is requested with a lot less code dedicated to resources and controllers. Check out the lighthouse-php package if you’re feeling a bit adventurous.

• Creating a GraphQL Server With PHP
  1 project | /r/laravel | 2 Jun 2022

  Lighthouse is a good option too: https://lighthouse-php.com/

• Looking for a personal stack
  7 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2022

  For multi-user apps Laravel Sanctum, Lighthouse for Laravel are options worth considering, haven't them tested yet.

• Get Started with GraphQL and Laravel
  5 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2022

  The most popular GraphQL libraries for Laravel are Rebing & Lighthouse, in our tutorial we will be using Rebing which we can install by running:

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