Is Nexus a good choice if I don't plan on using Nexus server

[nahtnam]

First off I want to apologize for creating a github issue, but the link to start a discussion is broken so I have no idea where to post this

I was wondering if Nexus Schema is meant to be used outside of Nexus Server/Framework? I am asking this for two reasons:

1. Nexus Schema's docs are tucked away at the bottom, making it seem like its not intended for independent use?
2. The docs for schema are sort of incomplete and point to the server docs

Would love to hear your thoughts!

[jasonkuhrt]

Hey @nahtnam

First off I want to apologize for creating a github issue, but the link to start a discussion is broken so I have no idea where to post this

Apology ours, the link is now fixed, thanks!

I was wondering if Nexus Schema is meant to be used outside of Nexus Server/Framework?

Nexus Schema is designed to be usable standalone. So the answer to your question is yes basically.

Nexus Schema's docs are tucked away at the bottom, making it seem like its not intended for independent use?

It is not the primary use-case, is all.

The docs for schema are sort of incomplete and point to the server docs

Yeah, we don't have a good solution to that right now. Nexus Schema users are assumed to have more advanced use-cases and so more likely to know what they are doing. Not an excuse, just the current situation.

[jasonkuhrt]

@nahtnam nice. Snapshots are a choice and it gives tradeoffs. Given dozens or hundreds, they may be easier to manage and keep up to date. If the responses are huge, snaphots may help all the more. If they are huge, however, determining correctness gets harder. If the test is only interested in verifying the correctness of a subset of the response (because other subsets are verified in other tests) then snapshots increase noise against signal.

[nahtnam]

That makes a lot of sense, thank you for the explanation.

FYI, I was able to get nexus working well with my framework, even HMR works in development! Will definitely be using this for future projects

[jasonkuhrt]

@nahtnam btw had a chance to checkout your framework. The ideas about seamless serverless/serverful deployment are exactly what we want to achieve for Nexus eventually. The HMR bit is very interesting too! Would also like that for Nexus. Would you be open for a call sometime with us to have a little tech chat and share notes about these things?

[nahtnam]

Hey, thats really great to hear! Still a major work in progress, the docs and landing page are quite lacking actually. Regardless, would love to share how I achieved all of this with you if that can help Nexus become better in any way. Do you work @ Prisma? I'm on their slack, we can discuss further there

[jasonkuhrt]

Yep I do, connecting with you there now, cheers!