Can anyone explain the difference/relationship bet...
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Christian Genco
04/10/2018, 3:45 PMCan anyone explain the difference/relationship between the graph.cool hosted GraphQL database and the new Prisma Cloud hosted GraphQL database?
As far as I can tell they're... made by the same group? And Prisma Cloud is newer? But they do exactly the same thing?
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harmony
04/10/2018, 3:47 PMthey don't do exactly the same thing
harmony
04/10/2018, 3:47 PMgraphcool is meant as a complete backend with authentication ...
harmony
04/10/2018, 3:48 PMprisma is just a database wrapped in a graphql api
harmony
04/10/2018, 3:48 PMyou build you application server in front of that
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Christian Genco
04/10/2018, 3:55 PMhuh, okay
Christian Genco
04/10/2018, 3:55 PMso if I wanted to build graph.cool on top of prisma, I'd need to build my own application server (including authorization) in front of prisma?
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nilan
04/10/2018, 4:00 PMYou wouldn't build Graphcool on top of Prisma. Rather, the recommended stack is to combine a GraphQL Server like GraphQL Yoga with Prisma using GraphQL Bindings
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