front-end stack of React, TypeScript, and Apollo.
React gets more tractions. TypeScript is still not out-of-the-box supported. At the same time, more and more start-ups using TypeScript with React together. May it worth the effort to add that extra layer? So that the project is more maintainable?
Hasura markets their product as a “GraphQL-out-of-the-box.” It’s a standalone server that sits between your database & client. This differentiates Hasura from other offerings (like Prisma), and puts it closer in spirit to projects like PostGraphile.
More like a self-hosted managed BaaS.
But this isn’t how Hasura works. Instead, every GraphQL operation you send to the server is transpiled to raw SQL.
Sounds pretty straightforward on paper. That is no “magic.” But just looking at the generated SQL, may be useful for performance tuning troubleshooting, but not sure how much that will help to migrate to other vendors when decided Hasura is not the best option.
simply state the data requirements of your UI, and let a library handle everything else.
Very nice to have!
Besides remote schemas (a feature also available in a few GraphQL solutions), Hasura offers a clever feature: create any view or stored procedure, and Hasura can automatically generate GraphQL operations. Subjectively, complex data transforms are far easier to write and maintain in SQL than they are in JavaScript or TypeScript. Being able to go from creating the view to querying it in the client in mere seconds feels feels almost like cheating.
Not quite sure what kind of “data transforms” the author refers to but doing anything in SP never felt to be enjoyable. SQL is not a language to implement business logic. Creating views may still seem fine to me.
Now, that same button is simply a matter of updating the client, clicking a few things in the Hasura UI, then testing & deploying. We’ve cut the amount of server code we have to maintain by 2/3rds, allowing us to spend that time building more cool stuff for our users.
For CRUD liked operations, that seems very handy. Not sure about other buttons with more complex logic behind.
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