walmartlabs/lacinia

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1862 stars · 167 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Lacinia is a pure Clojure implementation of the GraphQL specification, serving as a backend-agnostic GraphQL query execution engine. It supports EDN or SDL schema definitions, subscriptions, introspection, and plugs into any Clojure HTTP pipeline.

Use cases

• build a GraphQL API server in Clojure
• execute GraphQL queries against my data layer
• add GraphQL subscriptions to a Clojure web service
• define a GraphQL schema using EDN or SDL
• serve GraphQL over an existing Pedestal HTTP pipeline

When to choose

• you are building a Clojure or ClojureScript backend and want a full, spec-compliant GraphQL engine
• you want a data-oriented schema definition style that embraces Clojure idioms
• you need subscriptions, fragments, unions, and introspection support
• you want to plug GraphQL into an existing Ring/Pedestal HTTP stack

When to avoid

• you want an ORM-like solution that maps GraphQL directly to database queries
• your stack is not on the JVM
• you need batteries-included HTTP handling without a companion library like lacinia-pedestal
• you prefer a framework with built-in resolvers and code generation

Facets

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graphql api-framework parser web-development backend apis developer-tools jvm jvm-scripting cross-platform clojure graphql-execution-engine sdl subscriptions antlr edn-schema

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