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Top 23 GraphQL Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: The $847/year Developer Tool Stack That Replaced My $4,200 SaaS Subscriptions | dev.to | 2026-03-24
Hoppscotch is open-source, runs in the browser, and does everything I used Postman for. Collections, environments, WebSocket testing — all there.
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Project mention: Three Ways to Convert JSON to TypeScript. Only One Is Deterministic. | dev.to | 2026-04-27CMS content. Headless CMS responses from Strapi, Sanity, or Contentful are deeply nested. Type them once; let the compiler catch template bugs.
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Project mention: React Server Components without Next.js - what are the real alternatives today? | dev.to | 2026-02-03
Gatsby supports React Server Components in its SSR mode. The implementation is stable, but the scope is narrow. Gatsby primarily targets content-heavy and hybrid static use cases. While RSC can be used for dynamic server rendering, the framework is not optimized for deeply interactive applications built around server components. For certain classes of sites, this is acceptable. For general-purpose applications, it is limiting.
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Project mention: How to Build a Dependency Map of a Legacy Codebase Using AI Tools | dev.to | 2026-05-09
137Foundry provides legacy modernization services that include dependency mapping as a foundational assessment phase. Prettier and ESLint are useful companion tools for enforcing code style consistency as the refactoring proceeds. Node.js and Python.org official documentation are authoritative references for understanding the import and module systems of those runtimes.
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TanStack Query
🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for the web. TS/JS, React Query, Solid Query, Svelte Query and Vue Query.
queries/ If you're using TanStack Query (React Query), this is where you'd keep your query and mutation hooks. It helps to organize your data-fetching logic and caching in one place.
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Website: twenty.com
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payload
Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.
Project mention: EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin security | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-01Payload can be deployed to Cloudflare Workers: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/templates/wi...
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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.
公式サイト: https://insomnia.rest/ GitHub: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
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Directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
How does Directus 2026.0 compare to NocoDB 2026.1 for teams needing custom API extensions?
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Refine
A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
Project mention: Open Source Retool Alternative: A Code-First, AI-Native Approach | dev.to | 2026-04-28Refine: github.com/refinedev/refine
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Hasura
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Project mention: One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-09Shameless plug: My org does this, and we deactived our Slack server to dogfood
https://promptql.io
By building Hasura [0], we already had the ability to generate data catalogs + metadata layer from DB's + API's so the foundational infra was there
[0] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
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Project mention: Web3 Growth Stack Explained: Tools, KPIs & Strategies for Onchain Growth | dev.to | 2026-03-23
Hey: Focuses on building privacy-centric social experiences.
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react-admin
A frontend Framework for single-page applications on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design
Project mention: Friday Links #30 — JavaScript Updates, Tools, and Inspiration | dev.to | 2025-10-17React Admin v5.12.0, TanStack Router 1.133, React Hook Form v7.65.0, Pixijs v8.14.0
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I’m doing offline-first apps at work and want to emphasize that you’re constraining yourself a lot trying to do this.
As mentioned, everything fast(ish) is using SQLite under the hood. If you don’t already know, SQLite has a limited set of types, and some funky defaults. How are you going to take this loosey-goosey typed data and store it in a backend database when you sync? What about foreign key constraints, etc., can you live without those? Some of the sync solutions don’t support enforcing them on the client.
Also, the SQLite query planner isn’t great in my experience, even when you’re only joining on ids/indexes.
Document databases seem more friendly/natural, but as mentioned indexeddb is slow.
I wish this looked at https://rxdb.info/ more. They have some posts that lead me to believe they have a good grasp on the issues in this space at least
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At Saleor, where I act as a CTO, we spend a significant part of our engineering effort embracing the different failure states and making sure the unhappy paths are covered as well as the happy ones.
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Project mention: AI Coding: Building a 1-Hour App Clone Is Easy. Shipping It Is the Work | dev.to | 2026-03-18
If you’re coming from the Parse ecosystem, it may help to know that Parse itself is a long-running open source backend framework. You can start from the official Parse Platform site, or go deeper with the community’s Parse Server repository. Our own developer docs are organized around that reality. If you want implementation-level guides, start with our SashiDo Documentation.
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Project mention: Why the performance of GraphQL and React Server Components: What Matters | dev.to | 2026-05-05
⭐ graphql/graphql-js — 20,314 stars, 2,046 forks
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apollo-client
The industry-leading GraphQL client for TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Vue, Angular, and more. Apollo Client delivers powerful caching, intuitive APIs, and comprehensive developer tools to accelerate your app development.
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yaak
The most intuitive desktop API client. Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, Server Sent Events, and gRPC 🦬
Project mention: Ask HN: What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-22 -
Project mention: React Server Components without Next.js - what are the real alternatives today? | dev.to | 2026-02-03
RedwoodJS introduced React Server Components in its Bighorn release line. The implementation is currently marked as canary or experimental. Redwood integrates RSC into its router and build pipeline and aims to make server components the default in the future. However, key pieces such as full SSR parity, authentication integration, and generator support are still in progress. This makes Redwood a reasonable choice for experimentation, but not yet a safe default for production systems that depend heavily on RSC.
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Project mention: Current Frontline in AI Agent Development: Robust Agent Design and Security Measures | dev.to | 2026-03-23
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Project mention: How to build a reliable web application with Elm, GraphQL, PostGraphile and PostgreSQL | dev.to | 2025-06-22
The features will be very simple: visitors can see the list of images posted, and some editors will be able to add, modify, or remove images thanks of the GraphQL IDE named GraphiQL. I will explain more about GraphiQL later in this article.
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amplication
Amplication brings order to the chaos of large-scale software development by creating Golden Paths for developers - streamlined workflows that drive consistency, enable high-quality code practices, simplify onboarding, and accelerate standardized delivery across teams.
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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source GraphQL projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoppscotch | 79,438 |
| 2 | Strapi | 72,321 |
| 3 | Gatsby | 55,952 |
| 4 | prettier | 51,901 |
| 5 | TanStack Query | 49,573 |
| 6 | Twenty | 49,077 |
| 7 | payload | 42,781 |
| 8 | insomnia | 38,472 |
| 9 | Directus | 36,025 |
| 10 | Refine | 34,820 |
| 11 | Hasura | 32,003 |
| 12 | hey-1 | 29,397 |
| 13 | react-admin | 26,763 |
| 14 | RxDB | 23,216 |
| 15 | Saleor | 22,957 |
| 16 | parse-server | 21,395 |
| 17 | graphql-js | 20,315 |
| 18 | apollo-client | 19,739 |
| 19 | yaak | 18,726 |
| 20 | graphql | 17,621 |
| 21 | pentagi | 17,428 |
| 22 | graphiql | 16,833 |
| 23 | amplication | 16,008 |
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