THE VIDEO SHELF · graphql history
GraphQL: The Documentary
A documentary on how GraphQL came to be at Facebook, featuring its co-creators Lee Byron, Dan Schafer and Nick Schrock. It covers the problems it solved and its adoption at companies like Twitter, Airbnb and GitHub.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it for understanding the original motivation behind GraphQL before judging whether it fits your problem.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CultRepo
- Topic
- graphql history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I recommend to watch the documentation about the facebook people that invented GraphQL [1]. Listen careful to which problems they solved with graphql, then think about the problems you have to solve for your application. Most of the time GraphQL is not worth its tradeoffs. …
typingmonkey on Hacker News · 2020-07
In GraphQL Query GeneratorWatch this Honeypot documentation about GraphQL. Listen to what the developers tell which problems they had to solve when they invented GraphQL. You likely do not have any of these problems. [VIDEO]
realPubkey on Hacker News · 2022-05
In GraphQL Is a Trap?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.