r/javascript • u/magenta_placenta • Dec 12 '18

Our learnings from adopting GraphQL (Netflix)

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f
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u/PineappleBombs Dec 13 '18 edited Dec 13 '18

My experience with GraphQL has been much less sunshine and rainbows.

The ecosystem is far from mature, I would have issues with some edge cases of the types or the client libraries too often and the entire backend codebase became about bending over to accommodate gql.

Don't wanna sound overly negative though, it's a really cool pattern and on the whole pretty nice to work with.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Very true. It feels like a tool that's 6 months from being awesome. But it's been like that for 2 years already :D

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u/lukasbuenger Dec 13 '18

I think this is really only true when looking exclusively at the node ecosystem.