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GraphQL: The Documentary

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What it is

A documentary on how GraphQL came to be at Facebook, featuring its co-creators Lee Byron, Dan Schafer and Nick Schrock. It covers the problems it solved and its adoption at companies like Twitter, Airbnb and GitHub.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it for understanding the original motivation behind GraphQL before judging whether it fits your problem.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I recommend to watch the documentation about the facebook people that invented GraphQL”

    Shows problems GraphQL's creators solved, to judge fit

    typingmonkey, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “GraphQL Query Generator”

  2. “Listen to what the developers tell which problems they had to solve when they invented GraphQL.”

    Developers describe problems that motivated GraphQL

    realPubkey, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “GraphQL Is a Trap?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: graphql, facebook, api design, rest, open source

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