stepzen-spectaql-docs VS graphql-introspection-tools

There have been several articles written about it, like this one and this one

If you want to add documentation to your SDL after this step, StepZen can help you do that in a low-code way as well.

What comes next? So far, you've learned how to create static documentation based on a GraphQL API locally, but the next step would be to integrate this into your CI/CD and deploy this documentation on a server. Combining with your CI/CD can be done by adding the command to run SpectaQL to your deployment steps. At the same time, StepZen can be integrated with Netlify to deploy the static documentation. You can find the repository with the complete source code for this post here.

After starting from scratch with a purely GraphQL mindset and landscape, these sorts of advanced manipulations became much easier to reason about and implement. Since there was no existing tool for it, we ended up creating a standalone package just for querying and manipulating the GraphQL schema in the ways that we needed. We then decided that others might find this tool useful, so we recently open sourced it as Microfiber. You can read my blog post about its release here.

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.