federation VS Postwoman

Compare federation vs Postwoman and see what are their differences.

federation

🌐  Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway. (by apollographql)
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federation Postwoman
3 212
646 60,091
0.8% 1.7%
9.4 9.6
2 days ago 1 day ago
TypeScript TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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federation

Posts with mentions or reviews of federation. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-29.
  • Apollo Federation Custom Scalars
    1 project | /r/graphql | 9 Apr 2023
    I feel like we ran into this recently at work but not with custom scalars etc. My colleague raised an issue for it. Hope this helps in some way.
  • Apollo Federation Input type union merge
    1 project | /r/graphql | 5 Oct 2022
    as per the Github issue here. However I have trouble understanding this statement. Why can't the gateway pick and choose which input fields are routed to each subgraph? Isn't it the responsibility of the supergraph SDL and the gateway to do exactly this, this same way it does for entities? What limitations are there that make merging input types using the union strategy not viable?
  • The Stack #3
    22 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    Federation comes with its own specification and directives as part of it which helps people to define all of the relations between multiple GraphQL entities so that the Apollo Gateway can combine them all together without having to modify the GraphQL gateway and also functions like __resolveReference which helps in resolving an entity with its reference as specified by the directives.

Postwoman

Posts with mentions or reviews of Postwoman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing federation and Postwoman you can also consider the following projects:

jaeger - CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify

bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

graphql-live-query - Realtime GraphQL Live Queries with JavaScript

postman-app-support - Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

supergraph-demo - 🍿 Compose subgraphs into a Federation v1 supergraph at build-time with static composition to power a federated graph router at runtime.

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

graphql-editor - 📺 Visual Editor & GraphQL IDE.

KrakenD - Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation

subscriptions-transport-ws - :arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions

GrapesJS - Free and Open source Web Builder Framework. Next generation tool for building templates without coding