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Comment by eurasiantiger | Hacker News Reader

A lot of FUD around GraphQL these days.

Seems this particular twitterer made the mistake of trying to implement their own GraphQL server from the ground up. Never do that! There are ready-made servers with neat resolver patterns which allow you to respond to queries with well defined entities while fetching their fields from any source.

That said, never do that, either! There are ready-made GraphQL adapters available for pretty much any database, and there are some very promising ”GraphQL-native” databases out there too!

And then there is Prisma, which is a one-stop shop for all your app’s GraphQL needs, whatever the database.

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The ready made servers often don’t handle authorization well or at all. Prisma is just an orm. This reads like somebody who hasn’t built a lot of prod stuff.

As someone who has indeed built production GraphQL backends, creating your own @auth directive visitor is not that difficult of a task. :)

I don’t know, but maybe that particular twitterer – Armin Ronacher no less – had his reasons for trying?

I don’t doubt that at all! However, I do not consider domain experts authority figures, however omniscient or infallible they may present. On the contrary, given how easily expertise distorts perception of knowledge, I find it prudent to avoid putting expert opinions on a pedestal, and to provide complementary views where possible.

How many ready-made servers are there that aren’t in JavaScript?

I’ve looked a couple times and didn’t find anything.

I guess that depends on one's definition of "ready-made"

DGS isn't a terrible place to start, if you're already in the Spring ecosystem https://github.com/Netflix/dgs-framework#readme

There's an "awesome" list in the graphql-java org, too: https://github.com/graphql-java/awesome-graphql-java#readme

Here’s a list neatly curated for compatibility with Apollo Federation, so you can be sure that your API is composable:

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/supported-subg...

Isn't Prisma just a SQL ORM that you use on the server?

Prisma is also an interesting case as it used to be queried via GraphQL but now they use their own query language. It’s still quite useful to build GraphQL based APIs though.

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