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Exuma

I have a simple question -- I've looked at GraphQL in the past and it seems extremely limited when you start wanting to do more complicated types of joins for performance, etc. This is such a fundamental thing to any webapp in my mind, and yet when I ask this previously people are often like "uhhh yeah...... use joinMonster I GUESS?"

Has GraphQL improved? I literally can't fathom using some kind of external plugin just to load data using more complex queries for performance reasons.

beaconstudios

GraphQL is designed around CRUD fetching patterns - so typically you would have a query per data type slice, and that query can be as complex as you like. In order to avoid N+1 queries, you should use dataloader: https://github.com/graphql/dataloader.

You can also join additional data to reference in deeper resolvers, but that's an antipattern AFAIK.