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It all started with GraphiQL demonstrating all these back in the day, but then came Playground (which had recently merged with the GraphiQL team to make things even more interesting), Altair and even desktop/web/editor based clients like Insomnia, Postman, Hoppscotch, VSCode Rest Client and the list goes on all proving that the developer experience with GraphQL can be made really better with just some sugar on top.
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But, some of the reasons why thinking about the future of GraphiQL feels really great is cause of the upcoming support for Monaco mode , support for plugins and a lot of amazing features from Playground to now become as part of GraphiQL as part of the transition according to the blog linked above.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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This when used with Jaeger, Zipkin or Tempo can provide you with Traces for your GraphQL operations which you can track across your resolvers. Do note that it is not advisable to be turned on for everything since it has a performance overhead.
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And while the user experience is made as simple as possible, there are a huge number of components which make it all happen behind the scenes as mentioned in the README and you can have a look at all of them in the monorepo here and here.
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And today, GraphQL Editor takes this one step further allowing you to view, edit, browse all the entities and hierarchy making it really a great tool for anyone who wants to quickly work through the schema.
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One important thing which GraphQL Spec did not discuss about is a way to transmit files over the wire when using GraphQL. This is where GraphQL Upload comes in. While not an official spec from GraphQL foundation, Jayden had done a great job to put together a multi part spec to address exactly this problem.
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This when used with Jaeger, Zipkin or Tempo can provide you with Traces for your GraphQL operations which you can track across your resolvers. Do note that it is not advisable to be turned on for everything since it has a performance overhead.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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subscriptions-transport-ws
Discontinued :arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions
While subscription-transport-ws from Apollo initially started off this journey, it is not actively maintained and GraphQL WS by Denis definitely is a great replacement to that having no external dependencies and having the ability to work across many frameworks.
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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
While Gatsby did popularize the idea of using GraphQL for static sites, there are a lot of other static site generators out there like Eleventy, Jekyll, Hugo, etc. and I find myself personally aligning towards Eleventy because of quite a few reasons which may not be right for this blog. But if you are curious, you can read blogs like this and this which gives a comparison.
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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.
It all started with GraphiQL demonstrating all these back in the day, but then came Playground (which had recently merged with the GraphiQL team to make things even more interesting), Altair and even desktop/web/editor based clients like Insomnia, Postman, Hoppscotch, VSCode Rest Client and the list goes on all proving that the developer experience with GraphQL can be made really better with just some sugar on top.
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Also note that subscriptions are not the only way to do real time communications in GraphQL. There are also things like Live Queries with great libraries like this from Laurin which you can use
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graphql-tools
:wrench: Utility library for GraphQL to build, stitch and mock GraphQL schemas in the SDL-first approach
While Schema Stitching was initially advocated by Apollo with introduction of many helper functions in GraphQL Tools, their direction did change soon after hearing a lot of feedback from their customers and took their call to introduce Apollo Federation. You can read their reasoning in this blog but this does not mean that stitching has lost its relevance especially with the introduction of Type Merging.
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It all started with GraphiQL demonstrating all these back in the day, but then came Playground (which had recently merged with the GraphiQL team to make things even more interesting), Altair and even desktop/web/editor based clients like Insomnia, Postman, Hoppscotch, VSCode Rest Client and the list goes on all proving that the developer experience with GraphQL can be made really better with just some sugar on top.
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federation
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Federation comes with its own specification and directives as part of it which helps people to define all of the relations between multiple GraphQL entities so that the Apollo Gateway can combine them all together without having to modify the GraphQL gateway and also functions like __resolveReference which helps in resolving an entity with its reference as specified by the directives.
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While Gatsby did popularize the idea of using GraphQL for static sites, there are a lot of other static site generators out there like Eleventy, Jekyll, Hugo, etc. and I find myself personally aligning towards Eleventy because of quite a few reasons which may not be right for this blog. But if you are curious, you can read blogs like this and this which gives a comparison.
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The Apollo CLI when combined with Federation does come with a lot of helpers to take care of things like pushing the schema, listing the services in the studio, doing codegen and so on though I am not currently sure why they are rewriting it again to Rust apart from the reasons as suggested here.
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The Apollo CLI when combined with Federation does come with a lot of helpers to take care of things like pushing the schema, listing the services in the studio, doing codegen and so on though I am not currently sure why they are rewriting it again to Rust apart from the reasons as suggested here.
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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.
NOTE: Federation with Apollo Server does not support subscriptions yet and you might want to stick with stitching if you are looking for subscriptions support or switch to some other server like Mercurius since it does allow subscriptions over federation.
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NOTE: Federation with Apollo Server does not support subscriptions yet and you might want to stick with stitching if you are looking for subscriptions support or switch to some other server like Mercurius since it does allow subscriptions over federation.
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While Gatsby did popularize the idea of using GraphQL for static sites, there are a lot of other static site generators out there like Eleventy, Jekyll, Hugo, etc. and I find myself personally aligning towards Eleventy because of quite a few reasons which may not be right for this blog. But if you are curious, you can read blogs like this and this which gives a comparison.
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Now, the exciting thing is that there is now a reference implementation to the same using GraphQL which you can find here and also an example to help you out with the same here
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Faker.js has been a great project to quickly generate mock or sample data providing various types of entities inbuilt. For eg. you can generate random addresses, images, URLs and so on, helping you to quickly test out your application without relying on the server or the backend to hold data.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
