What is GraphQL Mesh?
It allows you to use GraphQL query language to access data in remote APIs that don't run GraphQL (and also ones that do run GraphQL). It can be used as a gateway to other services, or run as a local GraphQL schema that aggregates data from remote APIs.
GraphQL Mesh is a tool in the GraphQL Tools category of a tech stack.
GraphQL Mesh is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to GraphQL Mesh's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses GraphQL Mesh?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use GraphQL Mesh in their tech stacks, including Novo, AlternateCMS, and Knawat 2022.
Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GraphQL Mesh.
GraphQL Mesh Integrations
GraphQL Mesh's Features
- Use GraphQL query language to fetch data from your data-sources directly, without the need for a running gateway server, or any other bottleneck
- Use GraphQL query language to fetch from (almost) any data source, without changing the source or modify it's code
- Free and open-source, and been built with the community
GraphQL Mesh Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to GraphQL Mesh?
GraphQL
GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
