Announcing Hasura Cloud: Managed GraphQL for your database and services

I’m delighted to announce the public beta of Hasura cloud! You don’t think about the number of instances, cores, memory, concurrent users, high-availability, realtime monitoring, caching, tracing, rate-limiting and other things that are infrastructure concerns

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Announcements

Remote Joins: A GraphQL API to join across your database and other data-sources

Hasura Remote Joins lets developers treat data across different data sources as if it were one database without having to modify or affect the existing data source.

JWT

The Ultimate Guide to handling JWTs on frontend clients (GraphQL)

JWTs are becoming a popular way of handling auth. This post aims to demystify what a JWT is, discuss its pros/cons and cover best practices in implementing JWT on the client-side, keeping security in mind.

Actions

Introducing Actions: Add custom business logic to Hasura

Hasura makes it easy to integrate business logic into your GraphQL API with Actions.

Offline

A Design Guide for Building Offline First Apps

Building Offline first apps is hard! We discuss 4 approaches that will help you build robust offline first apps with a fantastic user experience.

Announcements

Introducing Hasura Pro

Hasura Pro is an enterprise ready version of the Hasura GraphQL Engine that offers improved reliability and security controls.

Recent Blogs

REST

A REST View of GraphQL

In this article we will understand what REST & GraphQL are and the trade offs involved in using one or the other.

Authentication

Add 5 login methods to your Hasura app in 5 minutes with OneGraph’s AuthGuardian

AuthGuardian by OneGraph is live on Product Hunt today, check it out here! AuthGuardian is a free service by OneGraph that recently hit public release, and it’ll let you both: Add sign-on

Hasura

Announcing Hasura Cloud: Managed GraphQL for your database and services

JSonnet

Using JSonnet for programmable Hasura metadata

In this post, we will look at how to programmatically generate or manipulate the Hasura metadata using the Jsonnet data templating language.

Relay

Adding Relay support to Hasura

Relay is a JavaScript framework for declaratively fetching and managing GraphQL data. Hasura now has Relay support and we'd love your feedback!

Announcements

Remote Joins: A GraphQL API to join across your database and other data-sources

Hasura Remote Joins lets developers treat data across different data sources as if it were one database without having to modify or affect the existing data source.

Relay

A deep-dive into Relay, the friendly & opinionated GraphQL client

A comprehensive guide to building performant, type-safe apps with Relay, from GraphQL fragments and query best practices, to the Relay compiler and the server spec.

React

Building a Full-Stack Yelp Clone with React, GraphQL & Hasura

In this video series, we'll build a mini Yelp clone where instead of reviewing restaurants, users review planets from the classic sci-fi series "Dune".

GraphQL Errors

Nulls in GraphQL: Cheatsheet

What nulls mean in GraphQL queries and responses, pros and cons of nullability, and different approaches to error handling by Apollo and Relay.

Actions

Introducing Actions: Add custom business logic to Hasura

Hasura makes it easy to integrate business logic into your GraphQL API with Actions.

Actions

Building a customizable e-commerce backend with Hasura GraphQL APIs

An overview of building customizable, scalable, & secure backends for e-commerce apps with Hasura with all fundamental features like auth, search, inventory validations, add to cart, order placement and payments.

CouchDB

CouchDB style sync and conflict resolution on Postgres with Hasura

In this post we will look at integrating PouchDB's versioning and conflict management system with Hasura.

Authorization

Authorization rules for a multi-tenant system - Google cloud platform

In this post we will be looking at implementing authorization of a hierarchical role based access control system in a multi tenant setup.

Actions

Adding custom business logic to Hasura using Dark

Hasura has recently implemented a way to create custom mutations called Actions. Want to handle complex business logic? Actions are the way to go! To create a new action, you need to provide

Hasura

Effect of Intel's power management on web servers

While benchmarking Hasura, we noticed Hasura performed better when there was more load on the system. In this blog post we cover basics of processor power management & talk about how we see 50% improvement in latencies by tweaking power management settings.

Hasura

Decreasing latency noise and maximizing performance during end-to-end benchmarking

While benchmarking some tweaks to Hasura we noticed some confusing and misleading/inconsistent results which led us down a bit of a rabbit hole. This is a summary of what we've learned so far, what is left to try, and what we've tried which didn't seem to have much effect.

Events

GraphQL & Hasura events happening in April

A list of all the GraphQL & Hasura events happening in April.

Actions

Game on! Building a Unity Leaderboard with GraphQL & Hasura

In this three-part series, we build a Unity leaderboard with Hasura! Follow along as Baris Tumerkan, a Unity dev who is learning GraphQL, and Sezgi Ulucam, a GraphQL dev with no Unity experience, team up to solve this challenge together.

GraphQL Contributor Days

Announcing GraphQL Fireside Chats: A Special Series of Online Events

A series of live streamed panel discussions between prominent members from the GraphQL community. Join them as they discuss key topics in the GraphQL ecosystem.

Realtime

Building a Realtime Geolocation App with Hasura GraphQL and PostGIS

In this post we will look at building a data-heavy realtime geo-location app with PostGIS and Hasura GraphQL to plot nearby restaurants in a map.

GraphQL

Fetch your GraphQL data automagically: Building a movie app with Hasura & gqless

gqless, a next-generation GraphQL client inspired by Relay & Apollo Client, uses ES6 Proxies to know when properties are accessed, and convert the paths into GraphQL queries. In this video, Sam and Sez build a movie app together, using gqless and Hasura.

Typescript

Why we chose TypeScript for the Hasura Console

At Hasura, we wanted to introduce a statically typed frontend language for quite some time now. We discussed which one we should choose and evaluated options such as PureScript, TypeScript, ReasonML, and Elm.

Authorization

Hasura Authorization System through Examples

Authorization systems are about rules like, “Can user U perform action A [on resource R]?”. In this post, we implement real-world authorization rules using Hasura's JSON-based DSL.

GraphQL

Five years of GraphQL 🎉

2020 will mark five years since GraphQL was released! To celebrate, we asked some of the usual suspects 😎 in the community, including Lee Byron, co-creator of GraphQL, to reflect on their journey, and

FAQ

Hasura FAQ: What are the best practices? (Part 1)

Have you been wondering about best practices with Hasura? Here’s a quick rundown of some of our recent FAQ’s.