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I've been using GraphQL with Apollo and Absinthe/Phoenix for a civic data gerrymandering project. Fantastic combo and everything plays well together. Certainly

• irrigator 10y ago
  Interesting. I'm considering building a graphql service using Absinthe. Could you give more information on your experience? Any difficulties?
  • karmajunkie 10y ago
    Not GP, but I've been using it for the last several months and overall its been incredibly pleasant to work with. Bruce Williams and Ben Wilson have done a fantastic job with the API, and they are incredibly helpful on the slack channel. Its basically replaced Phoenix for most of my needs, which isn't a design goal of theirs—it just works out that way. There's a few areas the guides are a little sparse, but the API docs are pretty solid. That will improve over a little more time. There are some areas like returning errors to the client that are sort of roll-your-own in the graphql community at large, but those kinds of things for me have come down to just finding a practice that works for me and going with it. I haven't had a chance yet to upgrade to the latest version, which supports middleware and subscriptions, along with stuff I _think_ was already supported like transport-level batching. My advice if you're thinking about using it is to build out a basic set of features with it and expand your usage—you'll find out pretty quick if you like that modality, and apollo makes a great combo with it if you do.