Ask HN: Would you chose Node.js, Golang, or Rust for a GraphQL pet project?

verdverm · on April 28, 2020

If you want cryptos, Merkel tree is not enough. You need consensus for proof of (whatever) unless you are doing single node proof of authority.

Node has a benefit that the frontend is in the same language. You might check out https://apollokit.org

speedgoose · on April 29, 2020

Thanks for your advices. I'm actually planning to have a single node proof of authority, because I don't need high availability. I will have a queue, and a single node signing stuff one by one. The idea is to have something very simple and cost efficient.

Apollo Universal Starter Kit sounds nice, I knew about Apollo but not about this. Thanks !

troyk · on April 28, 2020

I have no experience with GraphQL, but if I were doing a pet project today I'd spin up https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe and check it out

speedgoose · on April 29, 2020

Elixir and the ErlangVM are a bit too exotic for this project and me, but it does sound interesting. I will probably try it out for something simpler in the future. Thanks.

steveklabnik · on April 28, 2020

I don't know much about Go's GraphQL support, but the majority of the ecosystem exists in node today, and Rust has some stuff, but it's not as mature.

I would have other reasons to use Rust here if I were to do this, but Node is the safest choice, imho.

speedgoose · on April 29, 2020

Thanks, I think I will go with NodeJS.