is graph.cool dead? i was searching for a serverle...
# orm-helps
sarink
04/25/2019, 11:36 AMis graph.cool dead? i was searching for a serverless graphql cloud, stumbled upon graph.cool, read through some tutorials, started setting up a project... and eventually needed to make an account for the graphcool-cloud, when i discovered that the service has been disabled (or, at least they're not allowing new registrations).
so i decided to give prisma a try, but prisma seems to require a server? how can prisma be a replacement for graphcool if graphcool is serverless and prisma is not? 🤔 am i missing something?
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tomhut
04/25/2019, 12:26 PM@sarink From my understanding graph.cool is no longer being updated and yoga+prisma is the replacement and recommended setup going forward. You do need to host it yourself, but thankfully they have a bunch of tutorials over at https://www.prisma.io/tutorials/ to help you.
tomhut
04/25/2019, 12:26 PMA little more info about it here http://www.prisma.io/forum/t/graphcool-framework-and-prisma/2237
tomhut
04/25/2019, 12:28 PMBeing self-hosted isn’t all bad though, I’m moving from graph.cool to Yoga+Prisma at the moment. I’m finding it much more flexible and allows me to do things that where not possible on graph.cool
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sarink
04/25/2019, 12:28 PMhmm, the entire attraction point (for me) was not having to host it myself or write any server code. this "upgrade" kind of seems kind of like replacing a restaurant with a grocery store, imo.
sarink
04/25/2019, 12:29 PMi'm sure it makes sense (for reasons i don't understand), but i think it's kind of a bummer
sarink
04/25/2019, 12:34 PM@tomhut is this extra flexibility really worth it when you add in the extra complexity of maintaining, building, and running your own server? wasn't the graph.cool dream to just be able to write your frontend and deploy a static bundle somewhere, and that's it? i'm just shocked anyone actually considers prism a replacement for graph.cool. they seem very different fundamentally speaking, and they both cater to very different use cases
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tomhut
04/25/2019, 12:39 PMI agree it’s not a direct replacement, something like firebase may be a better fit for you.
tomhut
04/25/2019, 12:40 PMFor better or worse it seems Prisma (the company) have pivoted as most startups do. Away from a backend as a service and more towards providing tooling for your own backend
tomhut
04/25/2019, 12:42 PMPersonally it’s worked out well for me, as our backend has grown in complexity I was hitting walls with what I could do with graphcool. But I can equally see it being a negative to lots of people.
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Harshit
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CCBCodeMonkey
04/26/2019, 4:09 AM@sarink using prisma cloud on heroku is pretty close to not hosting yourself, you don't have to do much, its what I do
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Harshit
04/26/2019, 4:45 AM2 Views