[WhitneyLand]

It seems many people loved GraphQL, a powerful and elegant concept, but then had a rude awakening with Relay as an overly complex, unwieldy, buzz kill.

Node, edge, and viewer are terrible mistakes w.r.t. naming and usability. I'm sure it's very intuitive for FB devs to think in these terms, but the words are specific to a problem domain and just don't translate as well to the general case as other choices might have.

[sgift]

That was one of the reasons I ran as fast as possible to Apollo after trying to understand Relay for a bit (that and more or less no tutorials for Relay). The other one was that Relay seems to be one of these "my way or the highway" frameworks, while I prefer libraries which follow my needs and don't force me to do all things the way they want.