GraphQL bindings enable accessing a GraphQL API from your programming language. Combined with Prisma, they provide an efficient "GraphQL ORM" layer to simplify your resolvers.
Design the GraphQL API you want for your clients
Implement the resolvers by delegating incoming queries to the underlying Prisma API using GraphQL bindings
Bindings construct corresponding queries to Prisma
query { allAdmins { id name isAdmin }}const Query = { allAdmins: (_, args, ctx, info) => ctx.db.query.users( { where: { isAdmin: true } }, info )}query { users(where: { isAdmin: true }) { id name isAdmin }}With Prisma and GraphQL bindings, most of your resolvers are implemented as simple one-liners where incoming queries are delegated to the Prisma API. No more complex or brittle SQL inside your resolver functions.
Developer experience reaches a new level with GraphQL bindings. Static code generation (e.g. for TypeScript) enables a type safe access of GraphQL APIs and will highlight typos and other structural errors at compile-time.
Resolving nested GraphQL queries is tricky and can easily lead to performance issues. GraphQL bindings are using the data loader pattern to ensure efficient query resolution in complex scenarios.
GraphQL bindings are functions in your programming language that let you send queries, mutations and subscriptions to a GraphQL API. The functions are generated based on a GraphQL schema and mirror the GraphQL API.
Think of GraphQL bindings as an auto-generated SDK for a particular GraphQL API.
Learn MoreUsing bindings is a convenient way to create GraphQL servers that use Prisma as data access layer. As Prisma is a standard GraphQL API, you are free to use it like any other GraphQL API.
It is easy to gradually introduce GraphQL bindings in an existing project. There is no need to do a big bang migration or start from scratch.
Currently GraphQL bindings support JavaScript and TypeScript. In the future we will support more languages as well as an optimised transport based on Protocol Buffers.
GraphQL bindings solve the same problem as ORMs - however, they do so in a very different way and without the limitations commonly encountered with conventional ORMs.
GraphQL bindings is a general framework that makes it easy to generate a powerful GraphQL SDK. The Prisma GraphQL binding is generated based on the Prisma data model.