> you can add your own custom GraphQL server to Hasura for business logic
> If you are comfortable with REST APIs (or something that already exists)
This is an order of magnitude worse than simply having to "depend on serverless functions". You're saying for any real-world business logic (read: non-crud writes to the database, every app has these), you need to re-implement another graphql server? or simply have something that "already exists" to solve your problem? Isn't that what Hasura is for?
> Now where this server is hosted is totally upto the user.
I think the dream of Hasura-like products is to not have a bunch of servers everwhere that need to be managed and coordinated. This is the beauty and power of Postresql. Containing our business logic in it is ideal. At the very least, containing our business logic in 1 Hasura instance would be 2nd best. Calling out to some other rest api or custom implemented GraphQL server defeats the purpose of a self-contained GraphQL layer. If some of the data lives elsewhere, sure. But what if the data just lives in our database?
> If you are comfortable with REST APIs (or something that already exists)
This is an order of magnitude worse than simply having to "depend on serverless functions". You're saying for any real-world business logic (read: non-crud writes to the database, every app has these), you need to re-implement another graphql server? or simply have something that "already exists" to solve your problem? Isn't that what Hasura is for?
> Now where this server is hosted is totally upto the user.
I think the dream of Hasura-like products is to not have a bunch of servers everwhere that need to be managed and coordinated. This is the beauty and power of Postresql. Containing our business logic in it is ideal. At the very least, containing our business logic in 1 Hasura instance would be 2nd best. Calling out to some other rest api or custom implemented GraphQL server defeats the purpose of a self-contained GraphQL layer. If some of the data lives elsewhere, sure. But what if the data just lives in our database?