[jlongster]

I've spent the last few weeks building a side project in Om Next, and this article is spot on. Really excited to see CircleCI's plans to migrate, as it'll be fun to read their code and learn how they use it.

Relay and Falcor are great, but when I look at their docs it's unclear how to integrate with whatever backend I want (especially Relay). Looking at Om Next, it was totally clear how to write my own backend. The tradeoff is that everything is a little more manual, but that control gives you a ton of flexibility.

In a small amount of code, I have a client that can query financial data in a bunch of different ways, and if the data isn't available it sends the query to the backend, which executes it against a SQLite database and returns it to the client. The components are all unaware of this: they are just running queries against data and everything just works.

Combine this is with first-class REPL and hot reloading support via Figwheel (both frontend and backend) and I'm blown away at how fast I'm going to develop this app.