What is Falcor?
Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
Falcor is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Falcor is an open source tool with 10.5K GitHub stars and 444 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Falcor's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Falcor?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use Falcor in their tech stacks, including Netflix, cloudless, and Pardel.
Developers
21 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Falcor.
Falcor Integrations
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Falcor's Features
- One Model Everywhere
- The Data is the API
- Bind to the Cloud
Falcor Alternatives & Comparisons
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