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by seanwilson 1583 days ago
Can someone give some concrete example use cases for this? So you connect this to your Stripe or Spotify account and this lets your website visitors do something via client-side JavaScript?
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There are quite a few, but as a recent public one - https://oss.love is built using Netlify Graph. It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example.

Another simple one would be building a chart of Salesforce opportunities to serve as an office sales gong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTaETEkZ6hE

We have customers who build a product using Netlify Graph to manage Salesforce leads/opportunities/etc. inside of Slack, etc.

> It pulls in data via the GitHub API using Netlify Graph, as an example.

Maybe I'm dense - but what is the value add here? I can pull data from github Api and build an app. Or I can pull data via netlify graph, from the github api, and build an app?

Does netlify provide the "server side" here, holding my github api keys, away from the browser that runs the app? Or something else?