Graphcool Framework

Graphcool was an open-source framework for developing and deploying GraphQL-based backends. It acts as a “backend-as-a-service / framework” that lets you define your data model via GraphQL SDL (Schema Definition Language), and in turn generates a GraphQL CRUD API, supports nested mutations, filtering, pagination, and real-time subscriptions. Graphcool separates the business logic from stateful storage components, allowing the stateful parts (database, subscription engine) to scale independently and giving flexibility in how you compose your system. Users could deploy Graphcool either locally (e.g. via Docker) or on a managed cloud offering. The framework also provided features like schema evolution, migrations, data loaders for performance, and built-in tooling to manage endpoints and deployments.