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walkable-server / walkable

A Clojure(script) SQL library for building APIs: Datomic® (GraphQL-ish) pull syntax, data driven configuration, dynamic filtering with relations in mind
https://walkable.gitlab.io/
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Add support for Pathom Connect? #163

Closed adamfeldman closed 3 years ago

adamfeldman commented 4 years ago

If I understand the history correctly, Walkable was initially implemented before Pathom's Connect abstraction existed.

Has there been any past exploration or discussion of how/if Walkable could be modified/extended to support Pathom Connect? Who else out there is interested in using or working on this?

I believe there would be a good amount of interest in a SQL backend for Fulcro RAD -- currently Fulcro RAD is experimental, and has only Datomic support.

My understanding is that Pathom Connect support is necessary for a Fulcro RAD backend to provide the full potential of its enhanced developer ergonomics. It is expected that Fulcro RAD will be a major factor in driving future Fulcro adoption, and by extension related projects such as Walkable.

Pathom Connect has various benefits:

  1. Auto-complete of graph queries in tools for data exploration.
  2. Graph edge generation from the index’s connection information.
  3. Multiple ways to reach a given attribute, automatically resolved via known reachable edges and transitive relations.
adamfeldman commented 4 years ago

Please note I am not yet familiar with Fulcro RAD's implementation, or whether it would benefit from work done in Walkable (and vice-versa).

I just found the partial implementation of a SQL backend for Fulcro RAD: https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad/blob/master/src/main/com/fulcrologic/rad/database_adapters/postgresql.clj

myguidingstar commented 3 years ago

New public api has just been merged to master. Pathom Connect support is part of it. Docs coming soon