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by hootbootscoot 1951 days ago
Apollo client? you mean where the Meteor Dev team suddenly leaped to when it dawned upon the world that Mongo as a primary-store and a bizarre architecture that let you walk away with exactly one artifact towards your inevitable rewrite? (moustache templates!) was probably not going to take-off in a big way. Awesome integration and polished docs etc. Mini-mongo and pub-sub with websockets always for everyone? mmmm it ran rather slowly... Put that at 30 degrees North North-West and integrate "what is good for a FAANG may bankrupt me and not provide foreign keys" lol.. Nothing against VC, but lets separate busy-work trends that mega-corps use in trench warfare of attrition (Google has more developers than you do.) from productivity tools. GraphQL? I'd probably Postgrest if I were a one-human front-end/SPA shop
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I mentioned it as an example of one of the more popular solutions available. Yes, it's complicated and requires a deep understanding of what it's doing - and even then it has warts that you have to work around - but we're talking about situations this complexity is necessary for the desired UX.

Whether the user actually desires this experience is another question entirely...