graphql-inspector VS apollo-android

merge-graphql-schemas will be added to the existing Schema management tools already created by The Guild (GraphQL-Toolkit, GraphQL Modules, GraphQL Inspector and graphql-code-generator)

GraphQL CLI 4.1 has been updated to use the latest versions of GraphQL Code Generator and GraphQL Inspector, which are included as recommended, best practice workflows for developing production-ready GraphQL applications.

It's an entirely open-sourced and community driven tool to help you improve and maintain your GraphQL stack. It comes with a CLI, GitHub Application and GitHub Action. You can read more on our website.

GraphQL Inspector

The new version of GraphQL Inspector comes with schema change notifications. We had it in plans for almost a year now and we're very excited to finally roll it out!

First, we are aiming for a new schema registry package. We plan on using GraphQL Inspector to check for breaking changes on individual services and the schema gateway as a whole. And thanks to GraphQL Mesh, that process will work for any type of service schema, not just GraphQL!

If you want to validate your schema as and when you push to Version control to maintain sanity, setup something like GraphQL Inspector locally and in your CI/CD pipelines to maintain your sanity. If you use the Apollo ecosystem, it comes inbuilt in the Apollo Studio or the CLI tools which it gives you.

GraphQL queries are just HTTP POST queries with a JSON body. They're supported everywhere.

If you want specialized tooling for them, Kotlin and Swift both have great strongly-typed GraphQL libraries.

Apollo publishes libraries for both:

- https://www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/

- https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/

An example of a Snowflake API request using Java. This example uses Java’s built-in HttpClient and constructs JSON manually, so it doesn’t require additional dependencies; however, in production, you should use a library like Jackson for constructing JSON. Additionally, for stronger typing, you could use Apollo’s Kotlin-based GraphQL client.

Can you elaborate on what you are trying to do? Why do you generate those classes manually? If you are using Apollo Kotlin then it will generate your data classes based on your query.

We continue to rely on Apollo Kotlin (previously Apollo Android) as we migrate to Federation. It has evolved quite a bit since its creation and has been hugely useful to us, so it’s worth highlighting before jumping ahead.

- found Flutter graphql is way ahead , even almost mature as Apollo for JS. apollo-kotlin is several miles behind, a lot of issues, absolutely inconvenient usage after graphql-flutter

The announcement is at https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/introducing-apollo-kotlin/ and the repo at https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-kotlin. Try it out and let us know what you think!

Apollo Client does have a good integration with these frameworks including React, iOS and Android — so, you might want to check that out

Hi 👋Martin from https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android here. Can you ellaborate more on "created schema files are not serialized" ? For Android app, I usually recommend separating the persistence layer and the network models so that they're not coupled. But maybe it's different from a microservice?