Can you elaborate?

There are so many good reasons to use it that I think I don’t make it justice. But here a few pros of graphile:

- it is made in typescript and can be integrated as a library directly in a JS project

- it is very easy to extend with plugins

- it is very easy to customize and run on an existing database

- it is « database first » in the sense that the schema is created based on the DB schema and some additional annotations

- it is really free open source software with a non-VC backed business model

- it is extremely performant

pier25

I don't have any horse in the race but other than the "it is made in Node" everything else applies to Hasura (except the VC thing obviously).

Do you have any other point to sustain this comment of yours?

> my conclusion is that PostGraphile is way ahead of all this

crubier

I mean:

- Like Hasura, has ALL the features of Hasura

- BUT really FOSS with no VC funding, supported through Patreon by a super nice team.

- AND I have all the source, in the same language than the rest of my stack, the language that my developers know

- AND it does not require to run yet-another-microservice but is just part of my graphQL server

- AND it is extensible through plugins that blend seamlessly in the server (unlike Hasura where I see no sign of plugins, and I don't want to write plugins in Haskell)

- AND it supports native, super-fast Postgres Row-Level-Security instead of rolling their own!

That is very clearly compelling enough to support my conclusion, from my point of view.

Let me also mention that I have been burnt by another VC-funded GraphQL server company, namely Prisma, which left us stuck with an old, non-maintained buggy version which is near impossible to patch and build ourselves, while they work on their pie-in-the sky Prisma v2 which is totally the wrong direction in my opinion.

We jumped ship from prisma, considered hasura, but went for graphile and love it!

pier25

Don't get me wrong, I agree with most of your points as I'd prefer to work with Node than Haskell, but I still don't see how it is "way ahead" of the other options outside of personal preference.

Unless I'm missing something, Hasura is FOSS too.

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine

True, Hasura does not have plugins (AFAIK) but you can extend it's funcitonality via webhooks and PG views.

As for authorization it may give them more flexibility to roll their own.

Anyway, thanks for bringing up PostGraphile. I'll check it out!