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Top 23 JavaScript GraphQL Projects
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Static websites are so good that they even have their own three-letter abbreviation: SSG (Static Site Generation). And of course, there are plenty of frameworks that generate them for you, no need in manual labour: Next.js supports SSG, Gatsby is still pretty popular, lots of people love Docusaurus, Astro promises the best performance, and probably many more.
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Civic Auth
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Project mention: 🚀 Biome Has Entered the Chat: A New Tool to Replace ESLint and Prettier | dev.to | 2025-04-06
If you’ve ever set up a JavaScript or TypeScript project, chances are you've spent way too much time configuring ESLint, Prettier, and their dozens of plugins. We’ve all been there — fiddling with .eslintrc, fighting with formatting conflicts, and installing what feels like half the npm registry just to get decent code quality tooling.
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insomnia
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Project mention: 🛠️ Criando uma API Node.js com Express + CORS e consumindo com HTML + Bootstrap | dev.to | 2025-04-22 -
Parse deserves mention primarily for its historical significance as the precursor that inspired the entire backend-as-a-service space. Founded in 2011, Parse pioneered many concepts that we now take for granted in modern BaaS platforms.
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dataloader
DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application's data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.
I have been out of touch with the GraphQL ecosystem for a while. What are the status quo solutions to the problems stated above?
N+1 I just remember the dataloader https://github.com/graphql/dataloader Is it still used?
What about the other things? I remember that Stitching and E2E type safety, for example, were pretty brittle in 2018.
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Reaction Commerce
Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
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So last time I wrote about integrating with Gridsome "The Jamstack framework for Vue.js" and a GrapQL solution; I've since moved my blog to Astro
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
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react-firebase-starter
Boilerplate (seed) project for creating web apps with React.js, GraphQL.js and Relay
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graphqurl
curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL. Also a dead-simple universal javascript GraphQL client.
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onur.dev
✦ My personal website built using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Contentful, Raindrop, Supabase and deployed on Vercel.
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react-dashboard
🔥React Dashboard - isomorphic admin dashboard template (React.js, Bootstrap, Node.js, GraphQL, React Router, Babel, Webpack, Browsersync) 🔥
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Damn-Vulnerable-GraphQL-Application
Damn Vulnerable GraphQL Application is an intentionally vulnerable GraphQL service implementation designed for learning about and practising GraphQL Security.
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apollo-upload-client
A terminating Apollo Link for Apollo Client that fetches a GraphQL multipart request if the GraphQL variables contain files (by default FileList, File, or Blob instances), or else fetches a regular GraphQL POST or GET request (depending on the config and GraphQL operation).
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graphql-upload
Middleware and a scalar Upload to add support for GraphQL multipart requests (file uploads via queries and mutations) to various Node.js GraphQL servers.
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This year, I've had to get rapidly up-to-speed with GraphQL. I thought I'd be starting from nothing, but I'd forgotten that TinaCMS (the headless content management system that I use with this site) uses it. One of the first problems I had to solve was how to generate static documentation. My limited research led me to two possible solutions: SpectaQL, developed from the earlier DociQL, and Magidoc. The latter has built-in search, so that made my choice for me. I use Hugo as my static site generator, so the first thing I had to do was start the local version of TinaCMS from my site's Git repository:
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript GraphQL discussion
JavaScript GraphQL related posts
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Mercurius: A GraphQL HTTP Server for Fastify
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Build Faster and Smarter The Best APIs for Full-Stack Developers
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Simple example with NestJS and Mercurius (Schema First) 😻
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cURL vs Postman
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How to Create a Secure Newsletter Subscription with NextJS, Supabase, Nodemailer and Arcjet 🔐💯
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parse-server VS wabe - a user suggested alternative
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Automatically Generated GraphQL Middleware Service
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
influxdata.com | 29 Apr 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source GraphQL projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Gatsby | 55,831 |
| 2 | prettier | 50,345 |
| 3 | insomnia | 36,167 |
| 4 | parse-server | 21,093 |
| 5 | dataloader | 13,037 |
| 6 | Reaction Commerce | 12,409 |
| 7 | Gridsome | 8,554 |
| 8 | react-firebase-starter | 4,513 |
| 9 | graphqurl | 3,362 |
| 10 | join-monster | 2,693 |
| 11 | mercurius | 2,424 |
| 12 | onur.dev | 2,148 |
| 13 | graphpack | 1,985 |
| 14 | json-graphql-server | 1,943 |
| 15 | react-dashboard | 1,621 |
| 16 | platformatic | 1,558 |
| 17 | Damn-Vulnerable-GraphQL-Application | 1,555 |
| 18 | apollo-upload-client | 1,540 |
| 19 | graphql-upload | 1,435 |
| 20 | learn-graphql | 1,217 |
| 21 | spectaql | 1,150 |
| 22 | tuql | 1,067 |
| 23 | swapi-graphql | 1,051 |
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