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So does Netflix not actually use GraphQL?

• grzm 10y ago
  Nope. Netflix has been using Falcor for a couple of years now, I believe. GraphQL and Falcor are a case of convergent evolution, as it were. Some past Falcor HN submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falcor&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falcor&sort=byDate&dateRange=a... Kinda surprised there hasn't been much associated discussion given the number of submissions, but I know GraphQL has had a much higher profile. My personal limited exposure to Falcor has been via David Nolen when discussing influences on Om.
  • bcrescimanno 10y ago
    GraphQL's higher profile comes primarily from it's association with React which has tremendous mindshare at the moment. What's interesting is that, as a lead UI Engineer at Netflix while Falcor was being developed, much of what we were prototyping towards our new UI framework bore a lot of similarities to React. We were definitely behind them on implementation (and I don't really think we would have done as well) and I was happy when Netflix went down the React path. Still, it's very interesting that a lot of similar ideas were coming out of both places.
    • grzm 10y ago
      Thanks for the inside dope. Have you had a chance to look at Om's approach?
      • bcrescimanno 10y ago
        I have and I very much enjoyed it. For me, it was also a journey of learning ClojureScript which I've had a lot of fun with. That said, I don't do full-time development anymore so my hands on programming chops are probably waning.
    • lmeyerov 10y ago
      Paul did a great job adding React support to Falcor ~half a year ago, and all our development now uses that. Really great for keeping it easy for our designer.