peer-graphql: A TypeScript repository from urgent

Don't!

After working on this for too long, I'm moving onto something else, and don't suggest you do this. Typical over reach. When building an internet application, you have to ask yourself, are internet servers and the internet itself really the problem? Here are some specifics:

Are Servers Really a Problem? WebRTC requires signaling. Free platforms or WebSocket servers can still be DDoS, requiring something else in front of it. Servers are an easy, often free utility compared to storage and compute on an abstraction of client devices.
Who's Really Offline Today? Mobile and Wifi are ubiquitous. There's web workers. 5G has billions invested in using client devices in conjugation with data providers down to the chips with efficient power consumption.
Bundle Size GraphQL adds to the bundle size ~300kb, unacceptable for initial bundle and requires lazy loading.
Peer Discovery A lot of the products that bill themselves as decentralized are surprisingly centralized when it comes to peer discovery.
Authoritative Data Anyone can resolve a query with anything. Requests require complex validation, dropping the peer, and reporting to a signaling server.
Dedicated Coverage No peer instances require a server. Headless browsers may drop WebRTC support.
Private data Servers provide an area of mitigated security, as in, if someone's rooted your server and reads API secrets, you have bigger problems. Peers require specialization, as in adding a Stripe secret in local storage, and announcing checkout support.
HTTP Cookie This was the final deal breaker. Cookies with the secure header prevent JavaScript access to secrets. Server required, non-negotiable.

At best, you have a very complex and insecure infrastructure still running servers.

A better alternative is to find a graphql platform. Then run fail2ban for DDoS protection on a free tier Google Cloud Engine server, and put that in front of the graphql platform.

For more scaling, like expensive compute, setup redis as a queue, and process on a local private network.

Rest here is left as a reference:

peer-graphql

peer-graphql provides a Relay network with little to no server resources. Concurrent users of your app and site resolve GraphQL queries in browser using only an echo WebSocket.

Benefits

The same software runs your client and server.
No server design, installation, configuration or management. Your app does it all.
Servers become a utility. Instead of calling up the power company for every new application, step down the data inside your app.

Installation

Install with yarn or npm:

yarn add peer-graphql

Run a npx script to tell peer-graphql about your schema:

npx peer-graphql ./your-schema.graphql

Use peer-graphql for the Relay network, with an executable GraphQL schema and a WebSocket echo endpoint

// Export a singleton instance of Relay Environment configured with our network function:
const relay = new Environment({
    network: Network.create(
        peerGraphql({
            schema:<YOUR_EXECUTABLE_GraphQLSchema_WITH_RESOLVERS>,
            url: 'wss://<YOUR_WEBSOCKET_ADDRESS>'
        })
    ),
    store: new Store(new RecordSource()),
});

Provide the Relay environment to peer-graphql state management:

state(relay)

Short Term Roadmap

Split into two packages, one for dev, and one for distribution to lower bundle size.
Accept both schema and resolver parameters in peerGraphql() instead of just executable schema. Right now good for mocking, but requires setup with graphql-tools.
Internal architecture, more types with combinators instead of function pipes and flows. Right now, too much coupling between function composition.
Dedicated peers in cloud. Ship the same software on Docker and Puppeteer to run on free tier for dedicated peer coverage.
NaCl public key encryption between peers.
Build script which sources data from active peers.

Long Term Roadmap