You might be surprised to learn that using the @skip and @include in a federated GraphQL API might lead to a severe performance degradation, depending on how they are implemented in the Router. In this article, we'll look at three different approaches to implementing these directives and discuss the trade-offs of each approach. We'll introduce the Zero-Cost Abstraction, which has a negative cost in terms of overhead and complexity, and show how it can help you to build the most performant fed...
