Comparison with https://github.com/zino-app/graphql-flutter

[Sewdn]

Hi, this package was originally a fork of https://github.com/zino-app/graphql-flutter: https://github.com/juicycleff/flutter-graphql Then it transferred to another namespace (snowballdigital) and it lost its reference as a fork of zino-app.

Could you please describe how this package differs from the original package that is still being maintained and what design decisions made you decide to go a different direction (and not try to steer to a single effort, maintained and contributed by more devs?)

We as a team are also willing to contribute, but must decide first what package is the most promising to end up as the project with most traction and community support.

Thanks!

[micimize]

@Sewdn the main addition seems to be the addition of an sql normalized cache (a51909db6ece92c800405e71ee08c65ce24a696a and 09ecb32a84d8744405300755179932d09389d6a7). You can take a look at the old diffs, though they're a bit misleading (there are a lot of apparent additions that are from prior work, not sure why). flutter-graphql only really has a page of extra commits, most of them changes to the readme.

Meanwhile, I've cleaned up most of the outstanding commits to graphql-flutter, and it has optimism on the way. I'm still hopeful that we can consolidate @juicycleff efforts, though as you could maybe tell from my comment in #9, I do not get the sense that he has any intention to do so.

[Sewdn]

@micimize Thanks a lot for the explanation and extra background. We know where to look now. And we'll probably shift focus to graphql-flutter. (Excited about optimistic updates btw! Thx!)

[juicycleff]

@Sewdn while what @micimize said is somewhat true, this fork is not limited to the SQL feature, and so far I have tried to replicate the same behaviour as apollo graphql. this was a fork of the graphql-flutter library at a time the development was stale. I have applications that depend on this repo and I will continue to support it. If you are looking for a more mature community of developers for a graphql library, please you could use graphql-flutter library. This library is aimed at achieving one purpose an apollo alternative for flutter and it wouldn't have been possible without the amazing work done in the graphql-flutter repo. I wasn't comfortable with the process of the maintenance of the parent library a while back which affected my project, so I am determined to get this repo working fully. Again graphql-flutter library is now more active than before and you can obviously contribute there. This library is not a competition with graphql-flutter library at least for now, and graphql-flutter is a great library