A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

Get a database and backend configured and ready in minutes so you can focus on your app and users. Nhost supports GraphQL out of the box (using Hasura), includes frameworks for authentication, serverless functions, and storage, and neatly integrates with GitHub for easy deployments. And it works with all frontend frameworks and hosting platforms.

radiQL is a new way to provide a GraphQL API based on your PostgreSQL database. It allows you to quickly generate your GraphQL schema and resolvers and generate boilerplate code for use with GraphQL-Express or ApolloServer.

Quickly scaffold a postman collection for a GraphQL API. GraphMan CLI generates a complete collection from a GraphQL endpoint, containing one request per query & mutation, with pre-filled fields, parameters, and variables.

GraphiQL saw its big 2.0 release this week with many awesome changes (some of them breaking) and a completely new design. More improvements are planned, but be sure to check out the new version!

The Guild worked with the Escape team to support GraphQL Armor within GraphQL Yoga and make this process as straightforward as possible.

If you are working with Swift, make sure to take a look at the SwiftGraphQL client. And the team just released version 4 a couple of days ago.

If you are using Apollo GraphQL server, take a look at GraphQL Armor, a new middleware from Escape Technologies that is simple to implement yet highly customizable and helps you secure your API.

Grafbase is a platform that makes it easy for developers to build GraphQL backends. Grafbase combines GraphQL, serverless technology, and edge computing to make it easy for you to develop your backend without spending time on infrastructure.

A curated list of excellent GraphQL Security frameworks, libraries, software, and resources.

Easy to use GraphQL performance analysis utility for profiling resolver execution time. Observe resolver execution time in your API with a visualization tool.

If you're looking for a hybrid caching solution that integrates with your GraphQL backend and client, look at Olympus. It uses Redis to implement a server-side cache and the browser's local storage for additional client-side caching.

Grafbase accelerates backend development with next-generation tooling. Deploy globally fast GraphQL APIs with top-notch developer experience. Their service is in beta right now and free to try.

Speaking of Python, if you're working with the Hypothesis library for testing, check out its GraphQL plugin. It allows you to generate arbitrary queries for your schema and test those in an automated manner.

DeSolver for GraphQL: a lightweight, minimalist, unopinionated Node.js GraphQL framework providing a powerful yet approachable API for composing modular and reusable resolver business logic. DeSolver utilizes the middleware pattern as seen in other popular frameworks as a way to create "routing" for your resolvers.

If you’re using GraphQL and Deno and always wanted to have a better cache available, wait no longer, but look at DenoStore. The developers behind the project had one goal, to make caching GraphQL in Deno as easy to implement and as effective as possible.

The Vertex GraphQL service proxy was inspired by current pitfalls Josh came across at work with monolithic GraphQL schemas. Vertex aims to solve this issue by allowing a single GraphQL endpoint to connect to many downstream services by parsing the query body and matching each query to a service.

Spearmint is an open-source prototyping tool made by developers, for developers, to simplify the process of creating tests for your application. The Spearmint team is proud to announce that the latest release of Spearmint now includes testing suites for both Svelte and GraphQL.

SpectaQL is a Node.js library that generates static documentation for a GraphQL schema using various options. The goal of SpectaQL is to help you keep your documentation complete, current, and beautiful with the least amount of pain possible.

Hoppscotch is a lightweight, web-based API development suite. It was built from the ground up with ease of use and accessibility, providing all the functionality needed for API developers with minimalist, unobtrusive UI. It is free-to-use and, as an added perk, completely open-source!

Apollo released version 2 of their Federation framework. Their blog post details what’s new, like an improved developer experience, improved shared types, and more. They also have a migration guide if you want to learn more about moving to version 2.

The Anvil team released SpectaQL a while ago. Now they are back with Microfiber, a tool to make interacting with and manipulating a GraphQL schema easy.

If you’re working with GoLang and are looking into GraphQL, give YarQL a try.