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GraphQL works great as the omni-API for frontends so you don't have to do 2 releases for every new feature. For most other use cases, it's a solution looking fo
by bragr 4y ago
GraphQL works great as the omni-API for frontends so you don't have to do 2 releases for every new feature. For most other use cases, it's a solution looking for a problem. Got real edge-node data? Throw it in neptune and query that directly, it'll be way more performant, I promise.
- verdverm 4y agoWhat is this 2 releases per feature you speak of? Can feature flags solve this? or maybe Thema (in time) https://github.com/grafana/thema https://github.com/grafana/thema
- bragr 4y ago>What is this 2 releases per feature you speak of? Frontend + Backend. In theory GraphQL lets you just ship the new frontend, with a new query, and not have to ship a new backend API update.