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GraphQL as a Database Query Language

Matthew on February 01, 2018

This article was originally published on mtso.io as GraphQL as a Database Query Language. The GraphQL ecosystem has quickly grown with development...
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Nikolas Burk • Edited

Wow, this sounds a lot like what we're working on with Prisma!

The idea is to automatically generate a GraphQL layer for any kind of database. Building the actual GraphQL server then becomes easy thanks to tools like graphql-yoga and GraphQL bindings!

To get a glimpse of what this looks like, check out the 4min introductory video or get started with a GraphQL boilerplate project.

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Matthew

I knew I had missed a project from you guys at graph.cool! When I was listing the prior arts, I thought I had heard something in this direction from graph.cool, but just couldn't remember the name.

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Ben Halpern

Wow, this sounds a lot like what we're working on with Prisma!

GraphQL is such a good idea that you just get the feeling that some of this is inevitable and it's just a matter of getting the details write over time.

I'd love for more posts and conversations around GraphQL on dev.to and if it can help drive attention to interesting projects, all the better!