graphql 16.6.0 which has 10744076 weekly downloads. It's the simple things that you can use far more broadly over the longer term in more scenarios. Comparing trends for express-graphql 0.12.0 which has 586912 weekly downloads and 6382 GitHub stars vs. Run async function, cache results to a key value store. I think these days reactive vars are a little overrated. And for local state management it's pretty weak. I'm over it tbh.Īpollo's config is a rabbit hole that at the end of the day doesn't matter very much. Initially created by Facebook, its growing ecosystem formed the GraphQL Foundation, a neutral home to the GraphQL community. And for some reason I'm supposed to care about their cloud hosted registry? They're acting like now you can't build an Apollo server without paying for graph diffs. GraphQL is a language designed for APIs that only loads the specific data each client requests, which is its main attraction. Yoga, and Mesh specifically.Īpollo Federation turned into super graph (or did it?) I'm not sure what the router is, and wtf is GraphOS? None of it is a framework so I don't know how any of this new stuff translates into actually building things. And these days I'd still probably go for tools from The Guild. I think most of the benefits of Apollo are in Apollo server. I don't mind Apollo Clients size because it's a net positive. Express (web framework for Node. React Query + Vercels graphql-request library.

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