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hasura / graphql-engine

graphql-engine

Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

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Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

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HN mentions by year98 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-07-16 10:58:24 UTC to 2026-04-09 17:18:26 UTC.

051015202018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 6 submissions, 9 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 6 submissions, 14 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 4 submissions, 18 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 4 submissions, 17 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 7 submissions, 6 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1569
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC20614
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22418
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21417
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1376
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

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Hasura GraphQL Engine The Hasura engine is an open source project which supercharges the building of modern applications by providing access to data via a single, composable, secure API endpoint. Hasura V3 The future of data delivery is GA: Supporting PostgreSQL (and its flavors), MongoDB, ClickHouse, and MS SQL Server. Also supports writing custom business logic using the Typescript, Python, and Go Connector SDKs. Here is the recommended Getting Started guide on DDN. The Hasura v3 engine code, which powers Hasura DDN, is in the v3 folder of this repo. You can find more detailed information about this v3 README. The Hasura DDN architecture includes Data Connectors to connect to data sources. All Hasura connectors are also available completely open source. Check out the Connector Hub which lists all available connectors. Hasura V2 Hasura V2 is the current stable version of the Hasura GraphQL Engine. Please find more detailed information about the V2 Hasura Graphql Engine in the v2 folder and this README. Cloning repository This repository is a large and active mono-repo containing many parts of the Hasura ecosystem and a long git history, that can make the first time cloning of the repository slow and consume a lot of disk space. We recommend following if you are facing cloning issues. Shallow clone This will only clone the latest commit and ignore all historical commits. git clone https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine.git --depth 1 Git checkout with only Hasura V3 engine code git clone --no-checkout https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine.git --depth 1 cd graphql-engine git sparse-checkout init --cone git sparse-checkout set v3 git checkout @ This checkouts the top level files and only the v3 folder which contains the Hasura V3 Engine code. Support & Troubleshooting To troubleshoot most issues, check out our documentation and community resources. If you have encountered a bug or need to get in touch with us, you can contact us using one of the following channels: Hasura DDN documentation: DDN docs Hasura V2 documentation: V2 docs Support & feedback: Discord Issue & bug tracking: GitHub issues Follow product updates: @HasuraHQ Talk to us on our website chat Code of Conduct We are committed to fostering an open and welcoming environment in the community. Please see the Code of Conduct. Security If you want to report a security issue, please read this. Stay up to date Join our communities to stay up to date on announcements, events, product updates, and technical blogs. https://hasura.io/community/ Contributing Check out our contributing guide for more details. Brand assets Hasura brand assets (logos, the Hasura mascot, powered by badges etc.) can be found in the v2/assets/brand folder. Feel free to use them in your application/website etc. We'd be thrilled if you add the "Powered by Hasura" badge to your applications built using Hasura. ❤️ Licenses V3 All the Data Connectors are available under the Apache License 2.0. The core V3 GraphQL Engine is intended to be licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0). V2 The V2 core GraphQL Engine is available under the Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0). All other contents in the v2 folder (except those in server, cli and console directories) are available under the MIT License. This includes everything in the docs and community directories.
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What Hacker News says

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adamfeldman·Dec 17, 2019
I am a fan of opinionated full-stack frameworks, in particular for building B2B web applications which contain lots of CRUDL views. For an open-source solution that largely revolves around the React frontend, consider react-admin [1] + its adapter for Hasura [2]. [1]: https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin [2]: https://github.com/hasura/ra-data-hasura, https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/ In Ruby/Rails-land, there is https://bullettrain.co.
In Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate
tango12·Nov 3, 2019
Hasura | San Francisco / Remote | Full time Hasura[1] is an open-source[2] tech company dedicated to make data-access stateless, secure and easy. The Hasura GraphQL engine provides instant realtime GraphQL APIs and an eventing system on Postgres. We're hiring senior/experienced Haskell engineers to work on the Hasura GraphQL engine. More details at: https://hasura.io/careers [1] https://hasura.io [2] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
tango12·May 31, 2019
(I work at Hasura) Thank you for the note! This can definitely be made easier, and we’re working on this. You can also add sql migrations as a sql file and that’s something we should document better! https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/migrations/referen... Coming back to RLS, doing what we’re doing to fetch multiple results for different clients is not easy. Connection variable vs being in the same sql statement essentially. https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite... Further, owning RLS helps us target more hosted Postgres vendors, and other Postgres flavours that don’t support RLS well. RLS on Heroku doesn’t work: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql#conn... Owning RLS does have a few other advantages. Having a unified experience in bringing that authz experience to “remote schemas”, for ex
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ample. (Typing on my phone, apologies for typos etc)
In Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres
tango12·May 31, 2019
Yep. We experimented around a lot with pub/sub (listen/notify, wal-lr). But it was getting hard to scale and heavy/spiky write loads needed careful thought. This seemed like the right way to get started esp. given that Hasura can get the entire sql query including authz, before moving to tackling that problem more effectively[1]. For folks that want to play around with wal and listen/notify: https://github.com/hasura/pgdeltastream https://github.com/hasura/skor [1] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...
In Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres
argo12·Mar 2, 2019
Senior Haskell Engineer @ HASURA | Full-time & Consultants | REMOTE hasura.io is hiring senior Haskell developers. We build tools for developers to reduce the effort that goes into building backends for applications. One of our core products is the opensource graphql-engine which gives the developer a realtime GraphQL backend on a Postgres database: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine Requirements: We are looking for someone who - has Haskell experience - has architected large scale applications in Haskell - has an understanding of the current best practices for writing production code - knows how to optimise Haskell code for performance Good to have: - Experience working with relational databases Location: Bangalore, India or remote. How to apply: If this role interests you, please reach out to us at work [AT] hasura.io. Please ment
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ion HN and let us know if you're looking for a full-time role or short term consulting.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)

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