go-gql-sample

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Go with graphql example

I wrote a simple graphql app. It's very simple; it has 2 public mutations, 1 public query, and 1 private query.

Why I write this?

To memorize what I did.

How to...

It's based on GQLGen and Gorm. Check there if you want to play this "sandbox".

What I found

Go itself is very smart and fast language, and would be a choice to write a backend of various services, but I found several things.

• No Admin Panel: I'm mainly using Python and Django, and it has Admin Panel as you can see, and someone provided admin panel in Go. Yes, it is past. Now, the panel is no longer working... Finally, I decided to use Prisma
• Needs to implement authentication subsystem manually: Django has authentication subsystem, but I couldn't find good auth frameworks for go. AND I made it.
• Weak ORM: Gorm is excellent ORM framework and I like it, however auto-migration feature is not so smart unlike Django. I think this problem can be solved by writing migration generator. I decided to use Prisma
• Where is ResponseWriter!?: Because there's no auth framework, I wanted to implement session with JWT and cookie, however, GQLGen provides only context.Context type in the resolver. Therefore, I couldn't set cookie and header. How can I set cookie in resolver?? How can I set header in resolver??

Conclusion

So, as conclusion, I think GQLGen is excellent for GraphQL API (not backend system), and it needs an implementation to generate schema migration automatically and authentication framework.

Give me advice

If you have nice idea to deal above, please let me know thru issues list, and of course, Pull Request is more appreciated.

License

See: LICENSE.md