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graphql-yoga vs GraphQL Mesh: What are the differences?
Developers describe graphql-yoga as "đ§ Fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup, performance & great developer experience". Easiest way to run a GraphQL server: Sensible defaults & includes everything you need with minimal setup.;Includes Subscriptions: Built-in support for GraphQL subscriptions using WebSockets.;Compatible: Works with all GraphQL clients (Apollo, Relay...) and fits seamless in your GraphQL workflow. On the other hand, GraphQL Mesh is detailed as "Query anything, run anywhere". 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-yoga and GraphQL Mesh can be categorized as "GraphQL" tools.
Some of the features offered by graphql-yoga are:
- GraphQL spec-compliant
- File upload
- GraphQL Subscriptions
On the other hand, GraphQL Mesh provides the following key 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-yoga and GraphQL Mesh are both open source tools. It seems that graphql-yoga with 5.58K GitHub stars and 353 forks on GitHub has more adoption than GraphQL Mesh with 923 GitHub stars and 23 GitHub forks.
Pros of GraphQL Mesh
Pros of graphql-yoga
- Easy to setup. No boilerplate code2