graphql-playground vs graphql-js

graphql-playground

🎮 GraphQL IDE for better development workflows (GraphQL Subscriptions, interactive docs & collaboration) [Moved to: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground] (by graphcool)

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graphql-js

A reference implementation of GraphQL for JavaScript (by graphql)

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graphql-playground		graphql-js
	Project
1	Mentions	26
7,535	Stars	19,920
-	Growth	0.1%
4.0	Activity	7.4
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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graphql-playground

Posts with mentions or reviews of graphql-playground. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-04.

three ways to deploy a serverless graphQL API
13 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021

graphql-yoga is built on other packages that provide functionality required for building a GraphQL server such as web server frameworks like express and apollo-server, GraphQL subscriptions with graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws, GraphQL engine & schema helpers including graphql.js and graphql-tools, and an interactive GraphQL IDE with graphql-playground.

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Posts with mentions or reviews of graphql-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

Understanding TTFB Latency in DJango - Seems absurdly slow after DB optimizations even locally
4 projects | /r/django | 8 Dec 2023
Diving into Open-Source Development
1 project | dev.to | 6 Sep 2023

To begin, I'm going to start with GraphQL. This repo is a JS-specific implementation for GraphQL, for which projects written in JS/TS can utilize to build an API for their web app. The reason why I chose this project is because I've always been intrigued by how GraphQl challenges the standard way of building an API, a.k.a REST APIs. I have very little knowledge about this project since I've never used it before at work or for my personal projects. I only have theoretical knowledge about it which I gained from watching YouTube videos. It also uses TypeScript which is fascinating because type safety is very important when building software considering it cleans out a lot of bugs early on before the software is shipped.
How to define schema once and have server code and client code typed? [Typescript]
3 projects | /r/graphql | 27 Jun 2023

When I asked this in StackOverflow over a year ago I reached the solution of using graphql + graphql-zeus.
Uncovering Frontend Data Aggregation: Our Encounter with BFF, GraphQL, and Hydration
3 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2023

In short, we chose not to pursue GraphQL due to some limitations with union types and a lack of support for maps. This is further detailed in this link: limitations.
Exploring the Most Commonly Used Folder Names in Popular NPM Packages
12 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2023

benchmarks: This directory contains benchmark tests that help measure the performance of the package's code, these tests can be are very useful when experimenting with performance optimizations, and to ensure no slowdowns are introduced between releases. Example from graphql.
Apollo federated graph is not presenting its schema to graphiql with fields sorted lexicographically
2 projects | /r/graphql | 22 Oct 2022

GraphiQL (and many other tools) relies on introspection query which AFAIK is not guaranteed to have any specific order (and many libs don't support it). Apollo Server is built on top of graphql-js and it relies on it for this functionality.
What are popular ORMs for Node.js?
16 projects | /r/node | 28 Jul 2022

GraphQL.js + Knex.js + knex-types (TypeScript generator for Knex)
Announcing GraphQL Yoga 2.0!
10 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2022

Yoga v2 supports some experimental GraphQL features such as @defer and @stream, allowing you to get a taste of the future of GraphQL (with compatible clients such as URQL).
11 JavaScript Examples to Source Code That Reveal Design Patterns In Use
13 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2022

Visitors are used for many reasons like extensibility, plugins, printing an entire schema somewhere, etc.
How not to learn GraphQL
8 projects | dev.to | 14 Feb 2022

support for @defer and @stream

What are some alternatives?

When comparing graphql-playground and graphql-js you can also consider the following projects:

e2e-type-safe-app - End-to-end type-safety demo with NextJs, GraphQL, Nexus and Prisma

mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify

graphql-jit - GraphQL execution using a JIT compiler

apollo-server - 🌍 Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.

fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify

graphql-subscriptions - :newspaper: A small module that implements GraphQL subscriptions for Node.js

graphql-code-generator - A tool for generating code based on a GraphQL schema and GraphQL operations (query/mutation/subscription), with flexible support for custom plugins.

graphql-shield - 🛡 A GraphQL tool to ease the creation of permission layer.

vscode-graphql - MIGRATED: VSCode GraphQL extension (autocompletion, go-to definition, syntax highlighting)

TypeGraphQL - Create GraphQL schema and resolvers with TypeScript, using classes and decorators!

react-relay - Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.

graphql-spec - GraphQL is a query language and execution engine tied to any backend service.