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graphile / crystal

crystal

🔮 Graphile's Crystal Monorepo; home to Grafast, PostGraphile, pg-introspection, pg-sql2 and much more!

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46Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
12.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

🔮 Graphile's Crystal Monorepo; home to Grafast, PostGraphile, pg-introspection, pg-sql2 and much more!

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Yes and I love it, and it’s amazing. I have been using it to write plpgsql functions for postgraphile. Find out more at https://github.com/graphile/postgraphile

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year46 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-27 18:29:23 UTC to 2024-03-08 00:52:06 UTC.

0510152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 2 submissions, 10 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 0 submissions, 16 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12210
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16016
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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This AWS announcement is quite exciting. For those wondering what else is available, I can share some recent research into available graphQL backend systems (but I have not used them past demo yet). These 3 hosted solutions all have a similar feature set. That includes support for enum types, uniqueness, required, and relations * GraphCMS * Scaphold * Graphcool GraphCMS is probably the most user friendly around schema creation, but that may not matter to you if you are an app developer. If you just want to declare a GraphQL schema there is Graph Front. There are also open source GraphQL backends * https://github.com/jscomplete/graphfront (Postgres) * https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql (Postgres) * http://join-monster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ * https://rest-layer.io/ (MongoDB, Sqlite3, Google DataStore) You can als
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o now run Graphcool on your own infrastructure. As a disclaimer, GraphQL was not designed to not be mapped to a data store like this. However, these technologies are at least a great way to prototype a backend.
In AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities
GraphQL is something that's relatively simple (and brilliant) but is one of those things that you just need to try properly first for it to click, especially if you have a background of implementing tons of REST based services. The GraphQL related tools are top notch and implementing GraphQL server isn't any harder than a REST based server would be (one could even argue that it would be simpler). Even if you don't want to implement everything from scratch, tools like Postgraph[0] exists that pretty much automate it for you. I made a simple tutorial[1] on wrapping an existing API with GraphQL here which goes through basics of settings up too. [0] https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql [1] https://github.com/motleyagency/devday-tutorials/blob/master...
In GraphQL Fragments Are the Best Match for UI Components
I don't think it breaks down (as long as most of the data comes form the database). For example i know exactly how paymoapp.com (similar to basecamp) is structured , i consider it to be a fairly large system and i know for a fact that PostgREST can support that. As for the "very similar be done for GraphQL", there is https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql which was based on postgrest ideas. Another approach would be to build graphql on top of postgrest (my comment below)
In Is GraphQL the Next Frontier for Web APIs?

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