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Kevin
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Introducing API functions With today's 0.5.0 release, you can build custom API endpoints directly in your Ponder app. Use cases - Replace GraphQL with tRPC or REST - Build SQL queries with Drizzle - Merge onchain & offchain data
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Kevin
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Why build API functions? The automatic GraphQL API is too rigid. With more flexibility at the API layer, users can simplify their data models and indexing logic. Example: Don't create a "volume" or "chart" table, just write a simple aggregation query.
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Kevin
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The GraphQL client developer experience is cumbersome compared to TypeScript-native tools like tRPC. We have work planned that builds on API functions to improve the client/server experience further. More soon.
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