Lightning Talk: Making GraphQL Fun for the Backend Too
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Homebound describes Joist as a GraphQL‑first TypeScript ORM that ships codegen, resolver scaffolding and deep dataloader integration to run on a 500+ table GraphQL/Postgres monolith. It claims data loader emergent batching eliminates N+1 automatically, provides synchronous in‑memory collections from populate calls, pushes cross‑entity validation and computed graph projections into the ORM, and offers a plugin hook to rewrite queries (tenant scoping) before SQL. The system is production‑used and reports substantially simplified resolvers and fewer performance bugs.
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