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Half of the stuff he mentioned are covered by apollo-graphql and libs in that eco-system: query batching, notifications (via subscriptions), automatic state updates via cache, typesafety with typescript and grapqhl-codegen. It doesn‘t seem like he even looked at the libraries he listed. :(

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Yeah, exactly, half of the stuff. You should be able to have all of this available by default. And it should have first class support without having to do complex setup. Also writing gql queries has always felt hacky and uncomfortable to me, without IDEs having the best support for it, and type safety? But maybe I haven't had the perfect setup.

Also graphql forces you to a certain way to resolve your data which may not always be the best fit.

Sorry if it was unclear, but my argument is that while many libraries solve pieces of the problem, no one library (or standard) solves all, or even most, of these.

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