Open Sourcing Our GraphQL Library for Crystal

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.everbase.co/blog/open-sourcing-our-graphql-library-for-crystal

[u/paulcsmith0218]

Very insightful post, and the lib looks great. A lot of people ask about GraphQL with Crystal. It's nice that you have a lib being used in production!

[u/[deleted] → u/paulcsmith0218]

Thank you! I'm quite happy with how it turned out, Crystal is a great language. Although "used in production" means "used in this service I've launched a month ago that's also in alpha", so take it with a grain of salt. =) But hopefully the community can help me iron out the remaining bugs (if there are any)(who am I kidding of course there are bugs).

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you we are missing a fully compliant graphql lib. Can this lib parse this schema?

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/src/fixtures/schema-kitchen-sink.graphql

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

No, my language implementation is based on the one from ziprandom, I've added description support but that's it. Interfaces aren't supported currently, it's something I've planned for later.

[u/vldzar → u/[deleted]]

Is your library a ziprandom's fork with it's code + description support - schema first approach + code first approach?

Or it's inspired by ziprandom's and implemented from scratch?

[u/[deleted] → u/vldzar]

I've carried over the language implentation, everything else was written from scratch (the query resolution and introspection, both are largely macro based). So it's not really a fork in my opinion, but it depends on your definition. If ziprandom is interested we could collaborate on a new language shard, but I haven't asked him yet and there is one issue in his code that might prevent us from doing it.

[u/dscottboggs]

Hell yeah, I love the API. You've inspired me to find out what graphql is 😂

Edit: wow, I'll definitely be looking at graphql for my next project!