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Life & fun · October 5, 2020

Nested forEach directive in non-standard GraphQL server

Showing how GraphQL could get more elegant and powerful

Nested forEach directive in non-standard GraphQL server launched on October 5, 2020 with 9 votes, #1,157 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Last week I made a proposal to add embeddable fields to GraphQL , but it didn't get a lot of support. I got the feedback that the extra complexity added to the server doesn't justify the benefits of this new feature, as in this comment on Reddit (which I replied to through this post ). My proposed feature then appears to be not about GraphQL as we know it nowadays, but about an über GraphQL, or what GraphQL could possibly be. That's either a problem, or an opportunity. In this write-up , Alan Johnson says: [...] the execution model of GraphQL is in many ways just like a scripting language interpreter. The limitations of its model are strategic, to keep the technology focused on…from leoloso.com

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