Couchdb: Support GraphQL

[wohali]

@janl:

http://graphql.org

It’s rather new, but getting good traction. This would be a nice addition to our API. Somebody might already be hacking on this ;)

critique: http://kellysutton.com/2017/01/02/do-we-need-graphql.html

@davisp:

That article also mentions JSON API that could be interesting to read up on. I skimmed the front page a bit and it seems similarly interesting to GraphQL.

@gr2m:

I created a JSON API spec for common account tasks:
view: http://docs.accountjsonapi.apiary.io/
source: https://github.com/hoodiehq/account-json-api

JSON API is coming from the Ember community and it has some downsides. But it’s create to just avoid all bikeshedding around REST API design and just follow a common specification. There are other similar projects. And weather it’s a first class citizen feature or some kind of plugin, I think it would be nice for CouchDB to "own" the CouchDB/JSON API story. Meaning, if someone googles "CouchDB JSON API", they should come to one of our landing pages where we describe who the two work together.

The same could be for GraphQL. I think someone build a system that has a GraphQL API but also uses PouchDB somehow to make it work offline ... ? I tried to find it but no luck. ping @nolanlawson do you know of something?

@nolanlawson:

Yes there is this: https://github.com/MikeBild/graphql-pouch

[ansarizafar]

Is there any update about Graphql support?

[wohali]

@ansarizafar nope. When there is, you'll see it linked here.

[ansarizafar]

Is there any plan to add support for graphql? Is there any Couch db tutorial for Sql developers?

[wohali]

@ansarizafar It's on the roadmap. Pull requests welcome.

We do have this in the documentation that might help you: https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/ddocs/views/nosql.html

[rdewolff]

It would be amazing to see GraphQL support to CouchDB!

[rdewolff]

Any update on this?

[wohali]

No. Spamming the ticket is going to get you banned from our repo.