GraphQL
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Fournier: GraphQL rarely works well in practice outside of Facebook
“The impression that I have from sort of listening to people talk about it is that GraphQL is kind of trying to promise front end engineers that they don't really have to like collaborate with back end engineers and they can just sort of build whatever and it'l…”
Brady: Elicit generates TypeScript types from Python OpenAPI specs instead of GraphQL
“We don't use GraphQL. So we've got the types defined in Python. That's the source of truth. And we go from the open API spec and there's a tool that you can use to generate types dynamically, like TypeScript types from those opening API definitions.”
Hasura reached 100 million open-source downloads in its second year
“We went, we did two million downloads in the first year, a hundred million downloads in the second year, on track for adding up three hundred million this year. I mean, the fastest open source GraphQL project over the last two years since we launched”
Abe Gong calls Hasura 'just add water GraphQL' for Postgres databases.
“It's just add water GraphQL for Postgres. So if you've got a Postgres database, then you can point Hasura at it and extremely quickly spin up a GraphQL API for it. And subscriptions, queries, mutations, like you get all of those things. It's all code gen. So t…”