Comprehensive Guide to GraphQL Clients, part 1

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • IDEs are test tools to check the correctness of your queries. You can define your queries in the IDE and then send them to the server. The server will return the data that is requested if the query is correct. There are a lot of IDEs available. The most popular and the simplest IDE for GraphQL queries is GraphiQL. The modern clone of GraphiQL is GraphQL Playground. The environment is cleaner and has some advanced features. The recent IDE for GraphQL queries is Apollo Explorer. All-around tools such as Postman and Insomnia are great tools for testing either GraphQL queries or RESTful APIs.

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    Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

  • IDEs are test tools to check the correctness of your queries. You can define your queries in the IDE and then send them to the server. The server will return the data that is requested if the query is correct. There are a lot of IDEs available. The most popular and the simplest IDE for GraphQL queries is GraphiQL. The modern clone of GraphiQL is GraphQL Playground. The environment is cleaner and has some advanced features. The recent IDE for GraphQL queries is Apollo Explorer. All-around tools such as Postman and Insomnia are great tools for testing either GraphQL queries or RESTful APIs.

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  • IDEs are test tools to check the correctness of your queries. You can define your queries in the IDE and then send them to the server. The server will return the data that is requested if the query is correct. There are a lot of IDEs available. The most popular and the simplest IDE for GraphQL queries is GraphiQL. The modern clone of GraphiQL is GraphQL Playground. The environment is cleaner and has some advanced features. The recent IDE for GraphQL queries is Apollo Explorer. All-around tools such as Postman and Insomnia are great tools for testing either GraphQL queries or RESTful APIs.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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