Hasura is a gql server too. I can’t say how it’s different from prisma, but it works by running as a frontend process to your Postgres dB. You issue gql, it con

Hasura is a gql server too. I can’t say how it’s different from prisma, but it works by running as a frontend process to your Postgres dB. You issue gql, it converts to sql and then back to gql on the way out. Some of the things it does differently though. They declare access permissions in the dB (Hasura tables, managed through their api) and they work those into the queries. They do this by building a json object with any of your variables in and then reference those within the query. This allows for a neat trick where they can run the same query for different clients by starting with multiple rows (one per client) containing their respective variables. This is particularly great for subscriptions. They can poll the dB, to grab all data for all connected clients in a single hit, and then if anything has changed, they can notify the external clients about it.