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by gurubavan 3412 days ago
So does Netflix not actually use GraphQL?
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Nope. Netflix has been using Falcor for a couple of years now, I believe. GraphQL and Falcor are a case of convergent evolution, as it were.

Some past Falcor HN submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Falcor&sort=byDate&dateRange=a...

Kinda surprised there hasn't been much associated discussion given the number of submissions, but I know GraphQL has had a much higher profile. My personal limited exposure to Falcor has been via David Nolen when discussing influences on Om.

GraphQL's higher profile comes primarily from it's association with React which has tremendous mindshare at the moment.

What's interesting is that, as a lead UI Engineer at Netflix while Falcor was being developed, much of what we were prototyping towards our new UI framework bore a lot of similarities to React. We were definitely behind them on implementation (and I don't really think we would have done as well) and I was happy when Netflix went down the React path.

Still, it's very interesting that a lot of similar ideas were coming out of both places.

Paul did a great job adding React support to Falcor ~half a year ago, and all our development now uses that. Really great for keeping it easy for our designer.
Thanks for the inside dope. Have you had a chance to look at Om's approach?
I have and I very much enjoyed it. For me, it was also a journey of learning ClojureScript which I've had a lot of fun with. That said, I don't do full-time development anymore so my hands on programming chops are probably waning.