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Have you checked out Apollo Client? It's an alternative to Relay that works with all GraphQL servers and brings in a lot of the simplicity of Falcor: http://dev.apollodata.com/

It includes features like optimistic UI, easy ways to invalidate cache after mutations, arbitrary pagination models, and more.

(Disclaimer: I work on Apollo)

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I haven't. Maybe I will some time. My conclusion after struggling with Relay, though, was that there's a lot of complexity in GraphQL that I don't understand as well.

Fortunately, this guide links to a tutorial on that too: https://learngraphql.com/basics/introduction

I'm 100% with you on Relay being overcomplicated. My first project with it involved a lot of set up and the other frontend developer completely gave up on learning Relay entirely.

In contrast, for a newer project I used Apollo and was up and running in no time at all. It's very easy to reason about, but also gives you great React integrations.

Yeah I don't think there is a clear story about how to put together a GraphQL server yet. It's not inherently complex but the content isn't there yet. It's something we want to target soon.

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