prisma-labs/graphql-yoga
Graphql Yoga
GraphQL Yoga is a GraphQL server framework designed for building APIs that operate across all JavaScript environments. It utilizes the WHATWG Fetch API to provide a standardized request and response interface, enabling the server to run on serverless and edge computing platforms.
The framework includes a specialized server for processing file uploads via the standard GraphQL multipart request specification and a subscription server that delivers real-time data streaming through server-sent events. An extensible plugin framework allows for the injection of custom behaviors and logic into the request lifecycle.
The project incorporates performance optimizations through query persistence and the caching of parsed documents to reduce response latency. It also provides a middleware pipeline for modifying requests and responses.
Features
- Server Frameworks - Provides a complete framework for building GraphQL servers that work consistently across different JavaScript environments.
- GraphQL Implementations - Provides a core engine for executing GraphQL across diverse JavaScript runtimes.
- Runtime Agnostic Architectures - Decouples server logic from specific hosting platforms by relying on web-standard APIs instead of Node.js globals.
- Server Implementations - Acts as a comprehensive framework for building GraphQL server endpoints and managing request execution.
- GraphQL Subscriptions - Provides a server-side implementation for real-time data streaming using GraphQL subscriptions over server-sent events.
- Fetch API Implementations - Implements the web-standard Fetch API to ensure compatibility across all JavaScript runtimes.
- Fetch-Based GraphQL Servers - Implements a GraphQL server using web-standard fetch interfaces for serverless and edge platform compatibility.
- AST Caching - Reduces response latency by storing the results of GraphQL document parsing.
- Query Plan Caching - Reduces response latency by caching parsed GraphQL documents to avoid redundant parsing and validation steps.
- Edge Deployment - Enables deployment of GraphQL APIs across various serverless and edge environments using web-standard fetch implementations.
- GraphQL Edge Hosting - Supports deploying GraphQL APIs to serverless and edge computing environments via web-standard fetch.
- Plugin Frameworks - Offers an extensible architecture for adding custom request lifecycle logic through modular plugins.
- Middleware-Based Request Pipelines - Provides a modular chain of pluggable components to intercept and modify network requests and responses.
- Server-Sent Events - Implements real-time data streaming via server-sent events to synchronize client interfaces.
- GraphQL - Improves API response times through query persistence and the caching of parsed GraphQL documents.
- Lifecycle Plugin Systems - Provides a plugin architecture that hooks into request lifecycle stages to inject custom behaviors.
- Real-Time Data Streaming - Implements GraphQL subscriptions using server-sent events to push live updates to clients.
- JavaScript Implementations - Fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup.
