Lessons from stitching GraphQL services with Hasura

Ryan talks about the pros and cons of exposing Build UI’s environment-independent CMS from Hasura via schema stitching. He also talks about writing a Postgres function to add a derived field to a database model. Sam shares a debugging story about fixing his personal website due to a breaking change in a minor version of npm.

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:50 - Debugging Sam’s personal website due to a breaking change in npm related to peer dependencies
• 18:00 - Pros and cons of using a Postgres function to derive the active status of a Build UI subscription
• 28:42 - Exposing a Hygraph CMS through Hasura via schema stitching, and the fantastic TypeScript DX that came as a result

Links:

• Hasura
• Hygraph