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Looking for something similar but not VC backed checkout Super Graph. It's very similar and in GO. Also it's not VC funded or even a startup just a good old open source project with a fast growing community.

Super Graph can learn your DB schema and relationships and automatically compile GraphQL to a single efficient SQL query. Use it as a standalone service or a library in your own code. It also works with Rails auth, JWT, Firebase auth, supports OpenCensus tracking and tracing, designed to be high-performance and startup in few milliseconds fro scale to zero environments. It works with all kinds of DB relationships including polymorphic associations, JSON and Array columns, and much more.

https://github.com/dosco/super-graph

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FYI Super Graph has a built-in migrations framework and you can write seed scripts in javascript with built-in fake data functions. https://supergraph.dev/docs/seed

Also we currently expose a `GraphQL` function that can be used within your own GO apps as a way to replace ORMs and managing SQL. Just write the GraphQL and Super Graph will figure out the join, etc and build the most efficient single SQL query to do the job. We're expanding on this to expose the entire Super Graph service as an API.

GO is a great language for web development (especially API backends) and Super Graph is a natural fit. Using it as a library gives you unlimited flexibility. The link below shows you a GraphQL example fetching posts, comments, threads, votes, etc all related imagine the code you don't have to write and maintain. when you use Super Graph.

https://imgur.com/a/RNnoqXg

Are there any tools out there that provide generated GQL APIs with auth provided via middleware? This looks nice, but I'm hesitant to use anything this config-file driven

That almost describes Super Graph. It's not exactly config file driven it can be used as a library within your own GO code and it's configured via a config object. In fact if you look at the example here we're passing null (nil) for the config since unless you want to do something more complex out of the box it just works config is not needed. https://supergraph.dev/docs/home#using-it-in-your-own-code

The config file is for when you use Super Graph as a standalone service that you can just deploy to Cloud Run, App Engine, Digital Ocean or whatever. The standalone service is the same core compiler library with a lot more valuable add-ons like auth middlewares, compression, etc.

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