> (auth, rate limiting, error handling and validation stick out particularly)
I got all that for free with API Platform because it's based on Symfony. Ironically it's the graphql implementation that's primitive [1] -- but rock solid, so it won out, and being a rank newbie at GQL when I started, it was probably best I was stuck with the basics.
The JS backend world is a lot more ad hoc than the modern PHP world, so I can picture a lot more nightmare integration scenarios there. Besides, I'd probably prefer using tRPC + zod for my next all-TS project.
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[1] - It's actually pretty sophisticated underneath, but the code is a loosely-documented architectural maze, so yeah.
I got all that for free with API Platform because it's based on Symfony. Ironically it's the graphql implementation that's primitive [1] -- but rock solid, so it won out, and being a rank newbie at GQL when I started, it was probably best I was stuck with the basics.
The JS backend world is a lot more ad hoc than the modern PHP world, so I can picture a lot more nightmare integration scenarios there. Besides, I'd probably prefer using tRPC + zod for my next all-TS project.
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[1] - It's actually pretty sophisticated underneath, but the code is a loosely-documented architectural maze, so yeah.