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by andrew_wc_brown 2712 days ago
I do something similar with Rails and Postgres. I've never been good at publicizing tools I've built.

I think the biggest problem with Rails is Arel and by making it easier to write raw queries that serve json straight from the database you get great performance, composability and its still all really simple.

I don't need GraphQL because its so easy to write in one one endpoint everything I need to get back from my database and then write endpoints for all the smaller endpoints.

But yeah my project is basically handlebars meets SQL. I'm currently working on writing my own template language and hope to port it to other common languages.

https://github.com/monsterboxpro/monster-queries

I get really depressed working on projects with a million small endpoints or they take the other extreme of using GraphQL.

I'm quite tired of Full-stack development since things are taking 100x more effort and not because things are getting more complicated because they can't see the simpler solution.