graphql-playground VS spectaql

> FYI, GraphiQL is deprecated, GraphQL Playground is a good alternative.

You have this backwards.

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground/issues/1366#is...

https://github.com/graphql/graphiql

GraphiQL is a tool that was created to help developers explore GraphQL APIs, maintained by the GraphQL Foundation. But when GraphiQL became more and more popular, developers started to create additional GraphQL IDEs. A good example of this was GraphQL Playground, which quickly became the most popular GraphQL IDE. It was loosely based on GraphiQL, but had more features and a better UI.

I went to a GraphQL meetup and they used the gql playground and a similar schema generator to what I was using, and it made me feel relevant.

Here, we'll create a simple GraphQL server and subscribe to a subject from our resolver. We'll use GraphQL playground to mock client side behavior. Once we're connected we'll use NATS CLI to send a payload to our subject and see the changes on the client.

Now we can consume created GraphQL API. In the GitHub Repo same functionality has been added with REST approach and GraphQL endpoint. Also widely used Swagger configured for Web API Endpoints as well as AltairUI added for GraphQL endpoint testing. Naturally, AltairUI it not a must for GraphQL, you can also use Swagger, GraphiQL, or GraphQL Playground.

Navigate to http://localhost:3000/graphql. NestJS uses graphql playground by default. It's a lovely GraphQL IDE. We can check our schema here.

GraphQL Playground is usable in various ways. I recommend checking out the readme over here: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground

GraphQL is a popular and powerful way to build your APIs and power your website; we use it for most of our APIs at Anvil. One of the best things about GraphQL is that it provides an Introspection Query capability which allows users to explore and learn about what's possible in a given API. In that way, GraphQL is "self-documenting". Some great tools like Playground and Anvil's own SpectaQL leverage the Introspection Query.

Traditionally, most of the above problems have been pretty unavoidable, but at Anvil most of our APIs are implemented in GraphQL. GraphQL requires the definition of a schema that describes all the types, fields, methods, arguments, return types, etc, and even allows for descriptions of most things to be included. In this way, GraphQL implementations are pretty self-describing, and great tools like GraphiQL or Playground already exist to leverage this attribute of the framework. Because of all this, I knew that there must be a better way to do documentation in GraphQL-land, and I sought out to find it.

I've also used spectaql before to auto generate graphql docs.

Other than that, SpectaQL is also a good tool that is well maintained.

Hi All, Wanted to share that we officially released v1.0 of SpectaQL

It gets downloaded thousands of times per week on NPM

Last year, Anvil introduced SpectaQL to the opensource community, and it's been a big success. We've seen thousands of weekly downloads and a healthy amount of user support and interest via GitHub.

A while back we introduced SpectaQL to the open source community and it's been a big success. It gets thousands of weekly downloads, has a healthy amount of user support and interest via github, and has had a number of articles written about it like this one and this one. Our goal for SpectaQL has always been to be the de-facto go-to library to use for auto-generating static HTML documentation for any GraphQL API. A very important feature of SpectaQL is its ability to "hide" any parts of your API that you don't want to expose in your documentation. This sounds like a simple task, but in practice it's actually a bit tricky. In order to make interacting and manipulating a GraphQL schema easy, we developed a tool designed specifically for this purpose. Eventually we realized that while this tool was super integral to SpectaQL, it would also be useful for other applications so we decided to break it out into its own library and open source it! In this post, I'll introduce Microfiber and give an overview of its most interesting features and capabilities.

For this, we'll be using a library called SpectaQL, which is based on the popular library Spectacle that works with Open API and Swagger specifications. SpectaQL can be installed globally on your machine from npm:

GraphQL is a popular and powerful way to build your APIs and power your website; we use it for most of our APIs at Anvil. One of the best things about GraphQL is that it provides an Introspection Query capability which allows users to explore and learn about what's possible in a given API. In that way, GraphQL is "self-documenting". Some great tools like Playground and Anvil's own SpectaQL leverage the Introspection Query.

Source: github.com/anvilco/spectaql

I haven't tried it myself, but I recently heard about SpectaQL and it seems worth a look.