Hasura

Infrastructure

graphql api server

SHOW HN2018

24points
7comments
#1,101of 2,155 in 2018
Top 52%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

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What people liked

  • Looks neat and efficient

    From 1 comment
    • This is neat! Is there an equivalent of graph.cool's hooks, subscriptions and resolvers? Can I stick Hasura in front of my existing Postgres Db? Can I use my own migration tool?
      cpursley on HN

Objections

  • Confusing, too much going on at first glance

    From 1 comment
    • Whoa, there is too much going on here, I don't even know how to start. Is this like Heroku, but with the database built-in? [EDIT]: I had previously written "Postgres" instead of…
      fiatjaf on HN
  • No subscriptions yet

    From 1 comment
    • > Can you add hooks/resolvers? Nope. This is kind of by design. Hasura aims to expose a very light, high-performance abstraction with self-contained access control (you can…
      tango12 on HN
  • No hooks or resolvers by design

    From 1 comment
    • > Can you add hooks/resolvers? Nope. This is kind of by design. Hasura aims to expose a very light, high-performance abstraction with self-contained access control (you can…
      tango12 on HN

Requests

  • Pub/sub subscriptions for web clients

    From 1 comment
    • > Custom resolvers will also usually not be required because of Postgres views. Ok, that's probably a nice solution. I'd much rather write that logic in SQL than JavaScript. As…
      cpursley on HN
  • Support for existing Postgres databases and own migrations

    From 1 comment
    • This is neat! Is there an equivalent of graph.cool's hooks, subscriptions and resolvers? Can I stick Hasura in front of my existing Postgres Db? Can I use my own migration tool?
      cpursley on HN
  • Architecture diagram

    From 1 comment
    • I think an architecture diagram is missing! We'll add it to the site asap to make it more clear! This is basically how this works: [client] <--graphql--> [hasura graphql engine]…
      tango12 on HN

Questions

  • Can it sit in front of an existing Postgres database?

    From 1 comment
    • This is neat! Is there an equivalent of graph.cool's hooks, subscriptions and resolvers? Can I stick Hasura in front of my existing Postgres Db? Can I use my own migration tool?
      cpursley on HN
  • Can custom migration tools be used?

    From 1 comment
    • This is neat! Is there an equivalent of graph.cool's hooks, subscriptions and resolvers? Can I stick Hasura in front of my existing Postgres Db? Can I use my own migration tool?
      cpursley on HN

Alternatives named

  • Graph.cool

    From 1 comment
    • This is neat! Is there an equivalent of graph.cool's hooks, subscriptions and resolvers? Can I stick Hasura in front of my existing Postgres Db? Can I use my own migration tool?
      cpursley on HN
  • Heroku

    From 1 comment
    • Whoa, there is too much going on here, I don't even know how to start. Is this like Heroku, but with the database built-in? [EDIT]: I had previously written "Postgres" instead of…
      fiatjaf on HN

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