10 sats \ 5 replies \ @kilianbuhn 14 Apr 2022 \ parent \ on: Stacker News Mobile Phone Application (Mock) bitcoin
Probably a rest API, like always
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12 sats \ 4 replies \ @nout OP 14 Apr 2022
For extra points if there's gRPC with protos so there can be clientside typechecking :)
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13 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 14 Apr 2022
We have a graphql API which I find superior to either.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout OP 14 Apr 2022
Sweet, yeah, i never worked with graphql, so that's great to hear that it works!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 14 Apr 2022
It's a 10-100x improvement over REST. You hit one API endpoint with a query that's more or less "I want this data and for it to be shaped like this."
This is how I query for top users.
  query TopUsers($cursor: String, $within: String!) {
    topUsers(cursor: $cursor, within: $within) {
      users {
        name
        amount
      }
      cursor
    }
  }
This is how I query for posts where ItemFields is a reusable query fragment.
  query items($sub: String, $sort: String, $cursor: String) {
    items(sub: $sub, sort: $sort, cursor: $cursor) {
      cursor
      items {
        ...ItemFields
      }
    }
  }
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 14 Apr 2022
Oh, interesting. I have to read up about this
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