Full disclaimer: I've been working with Grafbase on some content lately, but I thought I'd drop my 2c.
Over the years I've spent a bunch of time working with GraphQL services such as Graphcool, Hasura, Prisma Cloud (their old version), AppSync, StepZen, and many others.
While we've moved on a lot since the days of what Graphcool gave us in the early days, the DX of most of these newer services still lacks what you get with the likes of Vercel and their local development experience.
Grafbase are working on this now with their CLI, and wow, it's really interesting to see bringing the full serverless experience to your local development environment. I can build my app locally, without Docker, or any configuration outside of my SDL and get locally what I get in production.
Over the years I've spent a bunch of time working with GraphQL services such as Graphcool, Hasura, Prisma Cloud (their old version), AppSync, StepZen, and many others.
While we've moved on a lot since the days of what Graphcool gave us in the early days, the DX of most of these newer services still lacks what you get with the likes of Vercel and their local development experience.
Grafbase are working on this now with their CLI, and wow, it's really interesting to see bringing the full serverless experience to your local development environment. I can build my app locally, without Docker, or any configuration outside of my SDL and get locally what I get in production.
Grafbase has a bright future!