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GraphQL is a query language and execution engine tied to any backend service.

36 mentions on Hacker News by 36 people: 7 stories, 29 comments · first 2015-07-03 · latest 2024-05-19

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  1. …release was 5 years ago. [2] It's first release under community governance was 2 years ago. [3] [1] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/releases/tag/July201... [2] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/releases/tag/June201... [3]…
    comment by paulddraper · 2023-10-10 · in Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC
  2. I created a proposal for Map type but didn’t make it through. https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/pull/888 The issue with GraphQL is it tries to appease too many masters. Similar to jsx. The language isn’t evolving. The good thing is…
    comment by nojvek · 2023-06-19 · in Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely
  3. The 'live queries' RFC in the GraphQL spec has been in strawman stage (RFC 0) for a while. https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/386
    comment by Emigre_ · 2023-01-16 · in GraphQL Live Queries with live directive
  4. Longer thread - Subscriptions RFC: Are Subscriptions and Live Queries the same thing? https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/284
  5. …track down what makes an operation slow. The waterfall nature of resolvers is a big contributor [1] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/488
  6. Check this out: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/91#issuecomme...
    comment by zelphirkalt · 2021-09-25 · in Lessons learned from running GraphQL
  7. …a better way to say it, no recursively nested objects, there is a Github discussion about it here: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/91 And if someone else is interested to take a look at my clone project (it's in Clojure),…
  8. ….com/docs/extended/pql-language-featur... I've also proposed composable fields for the GraphQL spec ( https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/682 ) but it hasn't got any support (that's why I'm now asking if embeddable fields could…
  9. …mismatch with nullability and union types because support is not uniform across languages [1] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/635
    comment by tango12 · 2020-06-20 · in Robust APIs Are Weird
  10. …box, but you can write your server to include directives for that. See some discussion here: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/91 Also just because you cannot query at arbitrary depths doesn't mean that GraphQL doesn't work…
  11. …can query. [1] Further reading: http://facebook.github.io/graphql/#sec-Fragment-spreads-must... , https://github.com/graphql/graphql-spec/issues/91
    comment by git-pull · 2019-07-27 · in GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard
  12. First result from Google: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/91
  13. It really is a shame, that the GraphQL specs don't have pagination and auth. ( https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/4 ) It would have finally ended the bickering about how to design "RESTful APIs", there's the specs, that's it.…
    comment by pas · 2018-07-17 · in Tutorial: Designing a GraphQL API
  14. …however you'd need to strap a pagination layer on top in order to make it work with GraphQL. [0]: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/91#issuecomment-2... [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/queries-with.html
  15. For previous context and discussion that led to this decision, this is the GraphQL issue to look at: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351 The original Medium post from an IP attorney is linked in the original issue comment, but I…
    comment by mcescalante · 2017-09-26 · in Relicensing the GraphQL specification
  16. …has an ongoing discussion about this (that predates much of the recent flare ups about PATENTS): https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351 The complicating factor there is Facebook actually has a patent covering the GraphQL…
  17. Still an issue: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351 , There's a patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US9646028 , and a recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15289676
  18. Waiting for update here https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351
  19. Seems like a change in the license is on its way: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/pull/363
    comment by juancampa · 2017-09-21 · in GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
  20. …is playing out to dramatic effect in Facebook's open source projects — you can see an example here: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351 Being able to give users of my software fuller confidence under the Lil License also makes…
    comment by jashkenas · 2017-09-20 · in The Lil License
  21. …While there is no payment of cash, payment is in the form of giving up future rights." [1] [1] https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351#issuecomment-...
    comment by yasserkaddour · 2017-09-20 · in GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
  22. …for GraphQL. There has never been a PATENTS file in that repo or any mention of patents: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/search?q=patents&type=Co... See DannyBee's post for why a patent grant for a specification is different from…
    comment by Flenser · 2017-09-20 · in GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
  23. Where is the GraphQL license? I don't see it in the repository: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/
    comment by fnord123 · 2017-09-20 · in GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
  24. …already employed in practice. Here are some additional resources: - RFC for GraphQL subscriptions: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/pull/267 - How to use Subscriptions in GraphiQL: https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/how-to-use-subscriptions…
    comment by marktani · 2017-04-19 · in You Might Not Need GraphQL
  25. …standardised than just a 1:1 mapping from rethinkdb or thinky calls over websockets/socket.io. [1] https://github.com/facebook/graphql/blob/master/rfcs/Subscri...
    comment by niklasrde · 2017-03-31 · in Is GraphQL the Next Frontier for Web APIs?
  26. …still have an appropriate amount of decoupling. Think of a dashboard. graphql points toward this https://github.com/facebook/graphql
  27. I've brought up this issue before in the context of GraphQL's declarative data: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/237#issuecomment-...
  28. …query by explicitly describing each level. There's no way to specify infinite depth (by design). https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/91 If you really wanted to get all the comments on a post, for example, you would have to have a…
  29. …grained data in existing fields that wasn't originally thought of. To take the Star Wars example at https://github.com/facebook/graphql and build on it. Let's say after this is deployed we need to expose a Planet's population as well. Now…
    comment by Novex · 2015-09-15 · in GraphQL: A data query language