The best open source software of 2020

Modern applications are written with GraphQL. Everyone has heard the story about not sending 1,000 REST calls and instead optimizing with GraphQL, but Hasura extends that story with actual security, subscriptions, and live queries. It provides useful graphical tools for constructing, running, and configuring your GraphQL queries. 

Moreover Hasura was built with PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL-compatible databases in mind (and also now supports MySQL). If the JavaScript/REST API era belonged to MongoDB and NoSQL, the GraphQL era belongs to PostgreSQL and distributed SQL. Hasura is one of the best open source GraphQL stacks to emerge from these modern application trends.

— Andrew C. Oliver