[thejosh]

I use Elixir and Absinthe, and was very skeptical as well until the past month about GQL.

I'm now completely sold, for a JS powered app, using Preact and Apollo-client makes working with the backend incredibly easy, and realtime via subscriptions works very well.

I've used it to build a couple of large apps, and am seeing very good results, and much easier to build something in the frontend. The backend handles these queries very well via pattern matching, and I also know the queries ahead of time. In future I would want to lock these down to certain queries.

I'm very impressed by GQL, after having to deal with crappy APIs in the past. JSONAPI was almost perfect to me (working with Ember), but the fact there was no bulk submit was very shity to me.

[KirinDave]

I suspect I would like it more if I wasn't stitching microservices that might also need client interfaces together.

Gql buys me absolutely nothing at all having microservices connect.