Falcor – A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching
Falcor is a very interesting approach, and as others have mentioned GraphQL is very similar. I can't go into any details, but we have been using Falcor on my team as the basis for our own work. We are gradually moving away from it though as it has become clear it is great for Netflix's use-case but less so for a more generalised solution. Particularly when you throw in streaming data.<p>I have a sneaking suspicion that the open sourced version of Falcor also isn't the version used internally. This is certainly true of their Prana (a sidecar used to allow a node app to talk to the rest of the Netflix stack). And the repo has had a massive slowdown and basically ground to a halt in the past year - <a href="https://github.com/Netflix/falcor/graphs/contributors" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Netflix/falcor/graphs/contributors</a>.<p>So saying that, I'd have reservations about recommending it for other developers to use. The concepts are great, but GraphQL is more widely supported and discussed. Also the Falcor docs could use some serious work for clarity.<p>Though I also believe there are better ways to declaratively describe your data requirements against a graph than either Falcor or GraphQL.