Hey, folks. I'm posting a blog article I wrote for my employer, Hasura. Sure sure, it's a bit of marketing, but honestly it's mostly an attempt to "start a conversation" as they say. I mean no disrespect, but in my experience, building GraphQL servers with Netflix DGS or any other way in code "by hand" is
arduous and yet that
does seem to be the standard way of going about it. The alternative is to provide a server by dynamically-introspecting a data model, the way it's done by Hasura, PostGraphile, Supabase, Prisma, AppSync, and a few others. What are peoples' experiences in this area? Am I wrong, in that, is there some way for a code approach
not to be so arduous? What are the objections to dynamically "generating" the server? I think I know some of them, but maybe I don't know all of them.
If I'm wrong about any of this, hopefully people will line up to tell me how. That would be great! It would be great to talk about how people are going about this out in "the real world" (not tutorials and "Getting Started" guides) and see what can be learned on all sides. Anyway, thanks much! Peace.