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by brycelarkin 827 days ago
Postgraphile. Postgres + graphql. It really solves all the negative aspects of graphql. Also, incredibly performant. Their v5 release is also a pretty interesting piece of tech.

https://postgraphile.org/
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grardb 827 days ago
I played with this a bit years ago when it was still called PostgraphQL. My biggest issue with it was that there didn't seem to be a recommended (or even suggested) version control method for things like functions. Using a standard migration tool to update functions seems like hell, so I gave up on using it.

Looking through the docs, I still see no mention of version control or even migrations at all. Is this something that has been solved?

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brycelarkin 827 days ago
It’d be like any other database schema change. We commit all schema migrations to git and have cicd run them.
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mdaniel 827 days ago
I didn't see a v5 tag in order to know, and I have no idea what "utils/graphile" does for the project, but one will want to ensure they are aware of its licensing scheme https://github.com/graphile/crystal/blob/db8894c74eb0ec3fe96...
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BenjieGillam 827 days ago
Its an optional command line utility that you may use with PostGraphile which does things like printing out your configuration in a pretty format and using TypeScript to figure out what options are available to you based on the plugins you are using. It is 100% non-essential because all the options are documented in each of the plugins (and also you can use TypeScript auto-complete in your editor), and you can just console.dir() your configuration. You can read about it here: https://postgraphile.org/postgraphile/next/config#viewing-th...
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igor47 827 days ago
Graphile worker is also awesome. Wish celery was as good -- I've been thinking of implementing a compatible worker in Python
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nagstler 827 days ago
Interesting, This project looks very versatile, Can experiment with quick a backend API on Postgres.
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brycelarkin 827 days ago
It’s one of the few big projects that still feels “open source” as opposed to corporate run open source.

I think Netflix is a big user / sponsor of the project.

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aitchnyu 827 days ago
Is there any alternative that works with Python?
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