People facing similar issues might want to try out GRelDAL [1] (disclaimer: I am the author), a simple node.js library for bridging relational databases to grap

People facing similar issues might want to try out GRelDAL [1] (disclaimer: I am the author), a simple node.js library for bridging relational databases to graphql APIs. It supports various strategies for loading associations, including joins and bulk sideloading (pre-edge when you know what to fetch before parent entities have been loaded, and post-edge when you need parent entities before). It is still somewhat early stage and the scope is much narrower but it provides a great deal of control to the host application on how the operations are mapped from the graphql layer to the persistence layer. [1] https://gql-dal.github.io/greldal/ https://gql-dal.github.io/greldal/