Hasura
Infrastructure
graphql engine
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
9 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 14 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Idea: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Well-designed website and documentation
From 3 comments
Thanks for releasing such a project. Your website is really well done, it immediately made me want to dig in the tech, congrats ! PS: as a sidenote and since i'm sure you'll get…
bsaul on HNNice work. There are several competitors in the automagic Postgres REST/GraphQL space, and you're nailing documentation and ergonomics here. Your site and the Hansura Console…
rcdmd on HNThank you for releasing this. I am impressed with Hasura! No knock on postgraphile, I am trying that out too as well as prisma, but this looks very well done and the boundaries…
uptime on HN
Useful for turning existing Postgres databases into GraphQL APIs
From 2 comments
Hi HN! Super happy to announce the first open-source release of the Hasura GraphQL engine. This is a standalone service that gives you GraphQL on Postgres. It comes with…
tango12 on HNThank you for releasing this. I am impressed with Hasura! No knock on postgraphile, I am trying that out too as well as prisma, but this looks very well done and the boundaries…
uptime on HN
Objections
Licensed under AGPL, creating legal uncertainty
From 1 comment
First glance reaction: Awesome, just the thing I need. Then I saw the fine print: AGPL. Haskell. The thing might be awesome, but the combination of the legal risk from AGPL (very…
mikl on HN
Haskell makes maintenance and hiring harder
From 1 comment
First glance reaction: Awesome, just the thing I need. Then I saw the fine print: AGPL. Haskell. The thing might be awesome, but the combination of the legal risk from AGPL (very…
mikl on HN
Business logic is hard to enforce and side-effects like emails are not built in
From 2 comments
This is very impressive. Congratulations! What I'm not seeing is how do you envision enforcement of complex business rules when using this API. Examples (silly, but you get the…
kilburn on HNI am very hesitant to couple the business logic of any application to the transport layer (GraphQL) or the persistence layer (Postgres) for that matter.
michaelmcmillan on HN
Requests
Support for subscriptions
From 1 comment
Any subscription support?
antigirl on HN
Support for many-to-many relationships and enums
From 1 comment
I have been playing around with it. It's great. Better support for ENUMS and MANY TO MANY relationships would be very needed though.
wjonas on HN
Compatibility with PostGraphile
From 1 comment
Really cool! Congrats. It would be awesome if it could be made compatible with Postgraphile (https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/introduction/)
HugoDaniel on HN
Questions
How does it compare to PostGraphile?
From 2 comments
Any comparison with PostGraphile?
vetinari on HNImpressive! How's it different from postgraphql (https://postgraphql.github.io/) or postgraphile (https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/)?
benoror on HN
How does it relate to Prisma?
From 1 comment
How does this project relate to prisma?
minxomat on HN
Does it support UUID fields?
From 1 comment
Thank you for releasing this. I am impressed with Hasura! No knock on postgraphile, I am trying that out too as well as prisma, but this looks very well done and the boundaries…
uptime on HN
Alternatives named
PostGraphile
From 2 comments
Any comparison with PostGraphile?
vetinari on HNImpressive! How's it different from postgraphql (https://postgraphql.github.io/) or postgraphile (https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/)?
benoror on HN
PostgREST
From 1 comment
GraphQL is the equivalent to REST or even SOAP. Just like there are frameworks for these protocols, this is one that automatically creates a service for a postgres database.…
y4mi on HN
Prisma
From 1 comment
How does this project relate to prisma?
minxomat on HN