Should we investigate Apollo (GraphQL) ?

[nelsonic]

• http://dev-home.apollodata.com/
• http://dev.apollodata.com/core/
• https://medium.com/apollo-stack
• GitHub GraphQL: https://medium.com/apollo-stack/the-new-github-graphql-api-811b005d1b6e
  and http://githubengineering.com/the-github-graphql-api/

relates to #18

[Jbarget]

this would be great for someones 20% time ;)

On the surface of things, it could cut the number of api requests we need to make.

From reading the blog post it sounds like Github feel a shift from REST to GraphQL.

Has anyone used it?

I know its made by faceybook but could improve our apps in the future

Resources:

http://graphql-elixir.org/
https://hexdocs.pm/plug_graphql/readme.html
https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/10/graphQL-GitHub

[pankajpatel]

I had spent little time on a PoC for HapiJS+GraphQL(Apollo)+REST API and React+Redux(with Apollo Tools) at Front End. https://github.com/pankajpatel/hapi-redux-graphql-rest

It turned out to be a successful experiment and can accommodate the (legacy) REST APIs as well (to support legacy or recently developed systems).

Now I have moved my app's REST API development with HapiJS+Mongoose to HapiJS+GraphQL+Mongoose.

[markhu]

IMHO, the HTTP2 standard might be a game-changer as an alternate way to reduce REST latency.

[nelsonic]

Found https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe + http://absinthe-graphql.org/
via https://elixirforum.com/t/graphql-absinthe-vs-graphql-elixir/1589
considering trying it out ...

[Jbarget]

@des-des havent you used it recently?

[nelsonic]

Briefly experimented with Absinthe (GraphQL) and Phoenix:
https://github.com/nelsonic/phoenix-absinthe-graphql-api
but did not see the benefit as Channels (RealTime/PubSub) is not yet available.
Created follow up issue: dwyl/phoenix-todo-list-tutorial#19

@Jbarget we used GraphQL quite a bit at TC: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-graphQL
Again, I was put off by the lack of subscriptions. While they are in the spec:
https://facebook.github.io/graphql/#sec-Subscription-Operation-Definitions
Most implementations do not have the feature yet. ⌛️