Earlier this week I released GraphQL Helix, a new JavaScript library that lets you take charge of your GraphQL server implementation. There's a couple of factors that pushed me to roll my own GraphQL server library: I wanted to use bleeding-edge GraphQL features like @defer, @stream and @live directives. I wanted to make sure I wasn't tied down to a specific framework or runtime environment. I wan
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