Introduction #

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melodyRepo is a backend platform that can save you hours of work and wait by caching Go repositories and preprocessing common analysis tasks to expose underlying metadata via a GraphQL API. By caching much of this data, checking for repository updates or listing package dependencies take a few milliseconds instead of seconds or minutes. When queried multiple times per day over multiple packages and repositories, this can accumulate into hours of saved time for you.

Why GraphQL?#

We chose GraphQL to give us greater flexibility in how metadata is structured while giving clients more flexibility in how it’s queried:

  • Strongly-typed system helps create clean, structured, and safe APIs.

  • Client-specified queries with field-level granularity help choose the perfect complexity/performance balance for each query.

  • A healthy ecosystem of tools & libraries can easily be taylored to this API by quering the type system via GraphQL itself.

  • Deprecation support allows us to evolve the API while keeping backward compatibility.

GraphQL is great – learn more about GraphQL.

Project Status#

Early Preview – melodyRepo is not just another academic exercise; it grew out of an in-house project that serves real development needs, and we will continue active development to make it more useful for our team, and now to the greater developer community.