Embedded Finance Powered by Productfy's Graphql Builder

Duy Vo
Posted by Duy Vo | Jun 9, 2021
In Part 1 of our series on GraphQL, we discussed the benefits of using a lightweight and flexible schema for building financial products and services. As a developer-focused Baas provider, good technology is the floor not the ceiling. To that end a developer should be able to access our toolbox, understand our APIs, and develop early prototypes - all without a human in the loop. 
To reiterate, GraphQL as an innovative query language accomplishes two main objectives when it comes to ease of use:
 
It is extremely lightweight
The challenge with building fintech using a traditional REST-based protocol in banking as a service is the hundreds of transactions, accounts, users, and card objects that a REST-based protocol would fetch in the JSON. As a developer, you cannot specify which fields or objects you want - you have to pull the entire JSON and parse the data on your end which not only increases the load but the response times. This is especially critical today on any mobile app to lighten the payload and optimize for responsiveness.

It enforces a common schema
Developers building off REST APIs know there are common discrepancies in formats and schemas. GraphQL enforces a common schema. REST APIs can have one endpoint with one format and another endpoint with a slight variation. GraphQL is great for buffering against schema changes. Too many times, when developers add fields to a schema, it can break the existing implementation. One of the benefits of GraphQL is that it helps protect from such changes.

GraphQL powered by Productfy

To further our mission of enabling developers to build, deploy, and launch financial products to market in the easiest, fastest, and safest method, we decided to build upon our toolkit and post our interface to GitHub in order to contribute to ongoing efforts to get GraphQL into the hands of more developers who may find it more useful than REST for their application development.  

Our GraphQL documentation tool is an ongoing project that we believe developers can iterate, enhance, and build more flexible fintech applications on. 

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Main features:

  • Left-hand tree structure for exploration of fields, objects, and arrays. 
  • Graphical query builder, with export in HTTP and CURL.
  • Upcoming... more export languages and Postman collections

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We welcome feedback on how we can improve on our documentation and interface. 

Check out our repo and drop us a line!
https://github.com/productfy/graphiql-tree 

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Productfy is a fast and easy developer-first platform for any company to build, test, and launch financial products. With embeddable modules for payments, deposits, and card issuance backed by unified due diligence and flexible general ledgering, companies have access to a unified platform that provides the building blocks to accelerate innovation and launch world-class products. With Productfy, developers can configure in hours, integrate in days, and go from idea to full stack deployment in as little as 3 weeks.
Productfy is a fast and easy developer-first platform for any company to build, test, and launch financial products. With embeddable modules for payments, deposits, and card issuance backed by unified due diligence and flexible general ledgering, companies have access to a unified platform that provides the building blocks to accelerate innovation and launch world-class products. With Productfy, developers can configure in hours, integrate in days, and go from idea to full stack deployment in as little as 3 weeks.