Introducing GraphQL Support for Insomnia

https://insomnia.rest/blog/introducing-graphql

by thejosh • 9 years ago

84 26 9 years ago

gschier10• 9 years ago

I'm the creator of Insomnia and I'd love to hear your feedback if you try it out! I'm still a novice to GraphQL, so I'd like to make sure that it accommodates all use cases.

~ Gregory

tbrock• 9 years ago

Cool. Insomnia is quite good. I prefer it over Paw (for MacOS only) because it is cross platform and I only want to learn one tool that works on both Mac and Linux.

Thanks for all the hard work!

gschier10• 9 years ago

Glad to hear it. Thanks for the kind words!

thejosh• 9 years ago

I've been using Insomia for a while, and really, really like it (hence why I submitted this post here :D).

The GraphQL support looks good, and will try it out with our backend.

gschier10• 9 years ago

Awesome, thanks for posting :)

Be sure to submit any issues you may have via Slack/GitHub/Email

kevinSuttle2• 9 years ago

I think as long as it's good or better than GraphIQL, you've got an advantage.

max23_• 9 years ago

Timely update as I am learning GraphQL with it and it is simpler now to define the request body.

Great work and keep it up.

gschier10• 9 years ago

Nice! That's exactly why I implemented it (I just learned it too for a side project)

dfischer2• 9 years ago

Hey simple question: mobile now... does this support sending auth headers per request?

gschier10• 9 years ago

Yep!

johnhenry• 9 years ago

Gregory, thanks for introducing Insomnia to the world and thanks for continuing to make it better!

gschier10• 9 years ago

mp01• 9 years ago

What's the difference between using this and using graphiql?

gschier10• 9 years ago

Lots, actually. Since Insomnia is a full-featured HTTP testing tool, you can use all other Insomnia features with GraphQL like setting custom headers, filtering responses with JSONPath, Nunjucks templating, etc.

kevinSuttle2• 9 years ago

What a clever domain name.

gschier10• 9 years ago

Thanks!

FullMtlAlcoholc2• 9 years ago

This is fantastic news as I loved your tool, but it fell out of favor as I startee using graphQL more.

Definitely looking forward to ditching graphiQL!

Does it support imports for graph. cool?

gschier10• 9 years ago

I haven't used graph.cool yet but as far as I can tell it's just another GraphQL backend so yes, it should work just the same.

hn_throwaway_99• 9 years ago

I'm curious as to why you want to ditch graphiQL. I find graphiQL to be one of the best things about the GraphQL ecosystem.

FullMtlAlcoholc2• 9 years ago

Purely aesthetics. I'm a weirdo, but a pretty UI really enhances my development experience. I'll use a less functional product if it pleases my pupils, like Hyper over iTerm2. (Not saying insomnia is less functional, it's just very pretty :)

baconomatic3• 9 years ago

Perhaps I'm missing it, but it appears this only works with POST requests?

tylerpachal• 9 years ago

You are probably correct. The server-side GQL implementations I have worked on expect only POST requests, and expect each requests' body to contain a query or a mutation.

baconomatic3• 9 years ago

Good point, looks like my implementation of GraphQL was't correct. Thanks!

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