Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I'm building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content (<a href="https://getpolarized.io/" rel="nofollow">https://getpolarized.io/</a>) - it's kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway.<p>GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it's definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications.<p>The thing about GraphQL is that it's middleware. It's designed to act as really nice glue between multiple backends.<p>It solves a lot of nice problems like over-fetching too much data, calling too many APIs, etc.<p>The problem is that you really don't need these to get an app shipped immediately.<p>The REAL sweet spot for GraphQL is for a company like Netflix or Facebook where you have 1500 APIs and tons of problems with data over-fetch and you have the time to sit down and do things right.<p>I think I'm going to end up going with Firebase just because you can bang something out FAST and get it shipped.<p>It's not going to be perfect but you can ship an MVP and start making revenue and/or grow your user base while you figure things out.