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Falcor

A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching, created by Netflix
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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 10.4K GitHub stars and 440 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

Pros of Falcor
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Promotes microservices
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Small API
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Data is the API
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One Model Everywhere
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efficient data fetching
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Bind to the Cloud
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Virtual JSON Resource
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Simple
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Backed by Netflix
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JSON Graph

Falcor's Features

  • One Model Everywhere
  • The Data is the API
  • Bind to the Cloud

Falcor Alternatives & Comparisons

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Postman
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Falcor's Followers
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