☎️ Hasura Community Call: Meeting Minutes

29th April 2020 (recording link)

• Moderator: Marion
• Note Taker: Vishwa
• Demos: Tanmai, Rishi, KP, Tiru, Aleksandra, Gavin, Sean

Hasura Con'20 announcement (recording)

• Hasura will host its first user conference from 3rd to 10th of June
• Check out workshops and confirmed speakers on the event website
• We're looking for speakers. Submit a talk here

v1.2 release party (recording)

• v1.2 is out 🎉
• Growth of contributors & Hasura team as one big family across many time zones
• One of the most popular features of this release is actions: integrating custom business logic easily with REST APIs
• A v1.2 refactor will allow us to add new features faster

Actions update (recording)

• Actions now have query support: support for custom queries in actions
• Actions now allow Postgres scalars like timestamptz, geography, JSONB
• Improved debugging for actions: get metadata about error response
• Action relationships: connecting actions to rest of the graph through relationships

Migrations workflow v2 (recording)

• A new workflow has been introduced for Hasura migrations
• Schema migrations are now isolated from metadata
• There are no more YAML files, but SQL files
• SQL files are incrementally added
• Files are easier to review due to improved metadata tree
• Performance improvement for schema migrations: time for 1k migrations improved from 30 minutes to 16 seconds

Permissions & data validations (recording)

• Improved permissions: Check values with post-update check after the update mutation
• We have a new data validations page in docs
• Common data validation methods as of v1.2:
  • Postgres check constraints
  • Postgres triggers
  • Hasura permissions
  • Hasura actions

CMS style features in the Hasura console (recording)

• Bulk delete rows
• Persisting table state
• Accept query params for filters and order by
• Selector component for enum fields
• Selector components for foreign key relations
• GitHub issue with future console style features

Relay support (recording)

• Implementation challenge: using fragments, client-side magic of Relay
• Hasura & Relay: Hasura has powerful GraphQL queries making it hard to generate SQL queries from Relay
• Cosmetic additions: e.g. camelCase support
• We'll add Relay support with v1.3

Community contributions: actions codegen (recording)

• You can build your own codegen for action handlers to get a boilerplate REST handler for the framework of choice
• Demo: GraphQL schema to Java type generator in a template
• GitHub repo with existing codegens
• We're looking for contributions on codegens! Refer to the GitHub issue

Community demo: AuthGuardian with Hasura by Sean Grove (recording)

• AuthGuardian has specific support for Hasura
• You can implement social media login with AuthGuardian
• There is a structured editor for setting default roles and declaring rules
• AuthGuardian can identify where to place the role in the JWT

Thank you so much for joining - see you next time! 👋