/grapher

Grapher: Meteor Collection Joins + Reactive GraphQL like queries

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Grapher 1.3

Build Status

Grapher is a Data Fetching Layer on top of Meteor and MongoDB. It is production ready and battle tested. Brought to you by Cult of Coders — Web & Mobile Development Company.

Main features:

  • Innovative way to make MongoDB relational
  • Blends in with Apollo GraphQL making it highly performant
  • Reactive data graphs for high availability
  • Incredible performance
  • Denormalization ability
  • Connection to external data sources
  • Usable from anywhere

It marks a stepping stone into evolution of data, enabling developers to write complex and secure code, while maintaining the code base easy to understand.

Grapher 1.3 is LTS until 2024

Read more about the GraphQL Bridge

Installation

meteor add cultofcoders:grapher

This provides a learning curve for Grapher and it explains all the features. If you want to visualize the documentation better, check it out here:

https://cult-of-coders.github.io/grapher/

Grapher cheatsheet, after you've learned it's powers this is the document will be very useful.

Useful packages

Events for Meteor (+ Grapher, Redis Oplog and GraphQL/Apollo)

  • Meteor Night 2018: Arguments for Meteor - Theodor Diaconu, CEO of Cult of Coders: “Redis Oplog, Grapher, and Apollo Live.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

Backers

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Sponsors

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Quick Illustration

Query:

createQuery({
    posts: {
        title: 1,
        author: {
            fullName: 1,
        },
        comments: {
            text: 1,
            createdAt: 1,
            author: {
                fullName: 1,
            },
        },
        categories: {
            name: 1,
        },
    },
}).fetch();

Result:

[
    {
        _id: 'postId',
        title: 'Introducing Grapher',
        author: {
            _id: 'authorId',
            fullName: 'John Smith
        },
        comments: [
            {
                _id: 'commentId',
                text: 'Nice article!,
                createdAt: Date,
                author: {
                    fullName: 1
                }
            }
        ],
        categories: [ {_id: 'categoryId', name: 'JavaScript'} ]
    }
]