Is it not possible to do the "fulcro client queries graphql remote directly" trick made famous by https://github.com/codonnell/crudless-todomvc with fulcro 3? It seems like pathom requires e.g. fulcro.client.network which does not seem to exist?

Do I probably want a separate pathom parser server anyway?

It's very possible to do it with fulcro 3.

The code that implements the fulcro remote is pretty small; you can implement it yourself. I think someone posted a gist here recently showing how to do it.

I do personally prefer using pathom in the server now, but there are pros and cons to both approaches.

Is this exactly what is meant by the simple/advanced dichotomy at https://wilkerlucio.github.io/pathom/v2/pathom/2.2.0/graphql/fulcro.html#Connect ?

No, those are both talking about using pathom in the client.

I am writing a blog series showing how to set up an application with fulcro in the client and pathom in the server at https://chrisodonnell.dev. Another example of that setup is the fulcro template (https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-template).

Do you think that Hasura provides any added value when you are already running pathom on the server? Simply writing the resolvers' SQL directly seems to work well in the mygiftilst example, is there a point whre you think it becomes unwieldy?

Hasura is an efficient and feature-rich graph query parser, and it just works without you having to write any code, which is awesome. However, when you use Hasura your query schema is forced to mirror your database table structure. In practice I've found that coupling to be pretty constraining, and so I've preferred to write the resolvers myself.

Another nice advantage of hasura is its out-of-the-box support for subscriptions.

Yes I was primarily enticed by the possibility for it to work with ~0 glue and i was prepared to tolerate potential issues like mutations being weird

If the zero-code dream can't be realized then it does seem better to just write resolvers to SQL myself

The fulcro 3 remote should look something like this (untested):

(defn fulcro-remote [parser]
  {:transmit! (fn [_ {:com.fulcrologic.fulcro.algorithms.tx-processing/keys [ast result-handler] :as send-node}]
                (let [edn (eql/ast->query ast)]
                  (go
                    (try
                      (result-handler {:transaction edn
                                       :body (<?maybe (parser {} edn))
                                       :status-code 200})
                      (catch :default e
                        (js/console.error "Pathom remote error:" e)
                        (result-handler {:body e
                                         :status-code 500}))))))})