[bcrescimanno]

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.

[lmeyerov]

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.

[grzm]

Thanks for the inside dope. Have you had a chance to look at Om's approach?

[bcrescimanno]

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.