Clojurians Log v2

I've been waiting for some motivation to try pathom/eql for a while, so two (noob) questions: 1. Does introducing pathom/eql require any server-side changes? 2. Do they play well with re-frame?

you can implement pathom on the client but we decided to implement it in our API layer for simplicity

since we did that, we use re-frame to send POST requests with an EQL query and then update the app-db with the results. it works well

we went an extra step further and are putting the results into a datascript db in the app-db to do normalization for us. this is OK for short term, but long term I'm interested in replacing it with something like https://github.com/lilactown/autonormal

Thanks! one more question, what is the major motivation of introducing pathom/eql into your system?

for us it was that we have a system of entities that have relationships to each other. we were creating API routes that exposed them, but then e.g. entityA related to entityB, I would need to fetch it from the A API and then the B API, which was slow. The other thing we would do is create ad-hoc API routes for each use case, that would return parts of entityA and entityB as was required by the UI, but that led to a proliferation of endpoints

pathom will allow us to declaratively select exactly what data we need from our entire system and load it on the front end, from one endpoint.

That's a great explanation, thx!