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by gothy 2689 days ago
Hi Dan,

any chances you and your team are working on a GraphQL access layer for the Firestore?

It feels like nested queries(using refs for relations), basic mutations and (especially) graphql subscriptions would be a great match with Firestore and a big improvement in dev experience, imho.

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We aren't, but we know customers to create GraphQL access layers themselves.
The point of having a GraphQL layer is not having to make it ourselves.

https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/

https://hasura.io/

I have created a GraphQL layer over the top of Firebase and while it was pretty easy to do so using Cloud Functions, I agree that it would be great if Firebase offered this out of the box without needing to do all of the work you currently have to, to use it.