Last year November's release of TypeScript was one of the most exciting releases. Literal types took over the TypeScript community by opening a whole new set of possibilities.

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 a definition, handler (REST endpoint), and specify the kind – sync or async. When you run the custom GraphQL mutation, Hasura makes a POST request to the specified handler with the mutation arguments and the session variables. If you want to know more about the machinery behind it, check out the docs [https

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.