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Top 23 GraphQL Open-Source Projects
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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TanStack Query
🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for the web. TS/JS, React Query, Solid Query, Svelte Query and Vue Query.
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insomnia
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
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Directus
The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
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Refine
A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
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react-admin
A frontend Framework for building data-driven applications running on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
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react-starter-kit
The web's most popular Jamstack front-end template (boilerplate) for building web applications with React
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payload
The best way to build a modern backend + admin UI. No black magic, all TypeScript, and fully open-source, Payload is both an app framework and a headless CMS.
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apollo-client
:rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.
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SaaSHub
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It was a great experience using Supabase’s rock-solid PostgreSQL database for this app. The DX around that product is phenomenal: viewing and managing the DB data was a lifesaver when you don’t want to craft your own admin panel from scratch.
Project mention: How to Build an AI FAQ System with Strapi, LangChain & OpenAI | dev.to | 2024-04-21Strapi provides a centralized data managing platform. This makes it easier to organize, update, and maintain the FAQ data. It also automatically generates a RESTful API for accessing the content stored in its database.
Project mention: Bypass CORS errors while testing your APIs using Hoppscotch 🔧 | dev.to | 2024-04-17How can Hoppscotch help you intercept the API calls? 👽
The first time I started building static websites is when I discovered Gatsby. I built several projects using Gatsby and hosted it on Netlify free tier. It felt like a really robust architecture and I loved that it was free.
Project mention: Mastering Code Quality: Setting Up ESLint with Standard JS in TypeScript Projects | dev.to | 2024-05-05In this post, I also use ESLint + Standard JS as my code formatting tools. Formatting JS/TS code by using ESLint is also subjective and opinionated, arguably most people would rather use Prettier instead, which provides more configurable options.
Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected.
> 2. ORMs do not hide SQL nastiness.
This is certainly true!
I mean: ORMs are now well known to "make the easy queries slightly more easy, while making intermediate queries really hard and complex queries impossible".
I think the are of ORMs is over. It simply did not deliver.
If a book on SQL is --say-- 100 pages, a book on Hibernate is 400 pages. So much to learn just to make the easy queries slightly easier to type? Just not worth it.
I prefer jooq any day over ORMs. And dont get me started over what tools like Hasuna have to offer.
There are also some languages (forgot the names) that are SQL-done-right. Select in the back, more type safe, more logic, more in the same steps as the query gets executed. These need to be adopted by PG and MySQL and we're good to go. (IMHO)
https://www.jooq.org/
https://hasura.io/
Project mention: How to Deploy Directus as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Koyeb | dev.to | 2024-04-25Directus is an open data platform built to serve as a headless CMS, API, or Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) for other applications. It is designed to make data accessible to people of all technical levels and to make it easy to build data-centric applications. Directus is extensible and can be integrated with many different frontend technologies to create stable, well-structured development and user experiences.
Project mention: Ask HN: Does Anyone Use a "Closed Core" Software Model? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-16> "Are there examples of companies adopting this model?"
Many examples across the industry:
- Autodesk AutoCAD (closed) + Plugins/Addons (many open)
- MS Windows (closed) + Many 3rd party programs (open)
- Github (closed) + Github Actions (open)
- Npm (closed) + Npm modules (mostly open)
> "What are the potential benefits or pitfalls?"
Benefits:
- Harder to replicate, the company gets to keep the "secret sauce" a secret
- Opening up a way to "extend" the platform means 3rd party developers add value to your system
- The core isn't open, so less effort is required to maintain compare to OpenSource
Pitfalls:
- Closed-source is hard to verify, company is essentially saying "trust me bro"
- Less innovation, as user's can't contribute to the core
> "How does it impact community engagement and software adoption?"
There's hardcore FOSS advocates that will hate anything not fully open. But a business has to make money and protect it's IP, having a "closed core" is one way to do that and ensure a sustainable business model.
Another approach is the opposite, open-core + closed-premium-addons. An example of this is "React Admin"
- Open Core -> https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin
- Premium Modules Offering -> https://react-admin-ee.marmelab.com/
Project mention: Major Update to React Starter Kit: Welcome Joy UI and Jotai! | /r/reactjs | 2023-12-04Your Feedback Matters Your feedback is crucial for the continuous improvement of the React Starter Kit. Please try out the new version and share your thoughts and experiences. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, feel free to open an issue on GitHub or join our community chat on Discord. We're excited to see the amazing applications you'll build with these new features! Happy coding! https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit
Project mention: Lenster a decentralized and permissionless social media app | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-25
Project mention: Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Database Changes in Real-Time? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17I'm interested in this problem also!
I think there is a large overlap with projects that market/focus on offline-first experiences.
AFAIK this problem can be solved by:
1) Considering a client-side copy of the database that gets synced with the remote DB. This is an approach [PowerSync](https://www.powersync.com/) and [ElectricSql](https://electric-sql.com/) and [rxdb](https://rxdb.info/) take!
Backend as a Service (BaaS) goes back to early 2010’s with companies like Parse and Firebase. These products integrated everything a backend provides to a webapp in a single, integrated package that makes it easier to get started and enables you to offload some of the devops maintenance work to someone else.
Project mention: Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API
https://github.com/saleor/saleor
Project mention: Understanding TTFB Latency in DJango - Seems absurdly slow after DB optimizations even locally | /r/django | 2023-12-08
Project mention: Best way to build a modern back end and admin UI. No black magic | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-21
Project mention: Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-01Actually, it's worse than that. Next has started throwing errors if it statically detects you even _importing_ hooks inside of a React Server Component environment:
- https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/10974
- https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/11167
To the point that Lenz Weber( a maintainer of Apollo Client, and my co-maintainer on Redux Toolkit), is considering resorting to a package that wraps and re-exports all of React's public API just to avoid that static analysis:
- https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/pull/11175
Frameworks are a theme with this month's Release Radar, so here's another. Redwood is a full-stack, JavaScript/TypeScript web application, designed to scale with you. It uses React frontend for the frontend and links to a custom GraphQL API for the backend. The latest version includes a bunch of breaking changes such as moving to Node 20.0, the Redwood Studio, and highly requested GraphQL features such as Realtime, Fragments, and Trusted Documents, the server file, new router hooks, and heaps more. If you've previously used Redwood, you'll probably want to upgrade to version 7.0. The team have put together a handy migration guide for you to follow.
Project mention: Learn Anything – Organize knowledge, explore connections, curate learning paths | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19
GraphQL related posts
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Comparing Hattip vs. Express.js for modern app development
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How to Deploy Directus as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Koyeb
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Best way to build a modern back end and admin UI. No black magic
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Learn Anything – Organize knowledge, explore connections, curate learning paths
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Setup XM Cloud Multi-site on Netlify
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Bypass CORS errors while testing your APIs using Hoppscotch 🔧
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Postman Has Acquired Orbit
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 8 May 2024
Index
What are some of the best open-source GraphQL projects? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | supabase | 66,465 |
2 | Strapi | 60,244 |
3 | Hoppscotch | 60,230 |
4 | Gatsby | 55,023 |
5 | prettier | 48,347 |
6 | TanStack Query | 39,775 |
7 | insomnia | 33,126 |
8 | Hasura | 30,832 |
9 | Directus | 25,517 |
10 | Refine | 24,853 |
11 | react-admin | 24,059 |
12 | react-starter-kit | 22,512 |
13 | hey | 22,410 |
14 | RxDB | 20,712 |
15 | parse-server | 20,628 |
16 | Saleor | 20,139 |
17 | dgraph | 20,069 |
18 | graphql-js | 19,926 |
19 | payload | 19,758 |
20 | apollo-client | 19,212 |
21 | redwood | 16,744 |
22 | learn-anything.xyz | 15,795 |
23 | graphiql | 15,688 |
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