Elm vs GraphQL

Overview

GraphQL

Stacks34.9K

Followers28.1K

Votes309

Elm

Stacks758

Followers744

Votes319

Elm vs GraphQL: What are the differences?

Elm: A type inferred, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code; GraphQL: A data query language and runtime. 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.

Elm and GraphQL are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Query Languages" tools respectively.

"Code stays clean" is the top reason why over 37 developers like Elm, while over 61 developers mention "Schemas defined by the requests made by the user" as the leading cause for choosing GraphQL.

Elm and GraphQL are both open source tools. It seems that GraphQL with 11.7K GitHub stars and 753 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Elm with 5.3K GitHub stars and 424 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, GraphQL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 561 company stacks & 750 developers stacks; compared to Elm, which is listed in 28 company stacks and 35 developer stacks.

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GraphQL	Elm
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.	Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.
Hierarchical;Product-centric;Client-specified queries;Backwards Compatible;Structured, Arbitrary Code;Application-Layer Protocol;Strongly-typed;Introspective	No Runtime Exceptions; Fearless refactoring; Understand anyone's code; Fast and friendly feedback; Enforced Semantic Versioning; Small Assets
Statistics
Stacks 34.9K	Stacks 758
Followers 28.1K	Followers 744
Votes 309	Votes 319
Pros & Cons
Pros 75 Schemas defined by the requests made by the user 63 Will replace RESTful interfaces 62 The future of API's 49 The future of databases 12 Get many resources in a single request Cons 4 Hard to migrate from GraphQL to another technology 4 More code to type. 2 Takes longer to build compared to schemaless. 1 No built in security 1 N+1 fetch problem	Pros 45 Code stays clean 44 Great type system 40 No Runtime Exceptions 33 Fun 28 Easy to understand Cons 3 No typeclasses -> repitition (i.e. map has 130versions) 2 JS interop can not be async 2 JS interoperability a bit more involved 1 No JSX/Template 1 Backwards compability breaks between releases

What are some alternatives to GraphQL, Elm?

Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

Julia

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.

Prisma

Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.

Racket

It is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp. It is designed to be a platform for programming language design and implementation. It is also used for scripting, computer science education, and research.

PostGraphile

Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an instant high-performance GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database

OData

It is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. It helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc.

PureScript

A small strongly typed programming language with expressive types that compiles to JavaScript, written in and inspired by Haskell.

Composer

It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

pnpm

It uses hard links and symlinks to save one version of a module only ever once on a disk. When using npm or Yarn for example, if you have 100 projects using the same version of lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be saved in a single place on the disk and a hard link will put it into the node_modules where it should be installed.