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Oh sorry, I should have clarified it’s GraphQL “under the hood” (backend). Most of GitHub is a Rails app, and in the case of the commits page, the controller makes a GraphQL query, and then takes the results and injects it into the view, all server side. The original idea was that if GitHub was using its own GraphQL API to build its pages, our users would have the exact same access as GitHub engineers.



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