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ASK HN: Is using GraphQL a good option for building an MVP?

by izwasm on 1/29/23, 4:30 PM with 3 comments

Let's discuss

  • by bradwood on 1/29/23, 5:28 PM

    I thought about it quite a bit and in the end, decided it was more of PITA than a benefit. Went with standard REST in the end, and I am still glad we took this decision.

    I wouldn't use / introduce it until it became something that is definitely going to add substantial upside (e.g., as part of a backend-for-frontends pattern, or to support some kind of sophisticated query API)

  • by purututu on 1/29/23, 5:51 PM

    If your main data source is a relational data model, that is tables with relations to each other, I give a strong yes: GraphQL is a very good option. Alternatively consider supabase which provides similar time savers when mainly dealing with relational data.