Since the GraphQL was introduced in 2015 by Facebook, it's popularity is continuously growing. If you want to learn the GraphQL here is a list of the best tools, extensions, and tutorials to start with.
Knowlege base
- GrapQL Official Documentation is definitely the best place to start your GraphQL adventure.
- Official Facebook Draft RFC Specification is a place to go if you are looking for raw knowledge regarding GraphQL project.
- GraphQL Weekly is a newsletter with news, articles, and everything related to GraphQL
- How to GraphQL is a website which will take you into a journey from GraphQL newbie to releasing your first GraphQL project.
- Explore-tech.org is a helpful resource for collecting GraphQL tools, especially libraries.
- Learn.hasura.io - The 2-hour GraphQL Tutorial series for frontend developers made by Hasura Team
Tools & Extensions
- GraphQL Docs is a simple way of generating static documentation for a GraphQL schema in seconds.
- GraphCMS a tool that allows you to define the GraphQL API. Create structures, relationships, powerful permissions and manage your content with ease, generally speaking, build a hosted GraphQL back-end for your web project along with tools to manage its content.
- GraphQL Editor makes it easier to understand the GraphQL schema. Create it by combining visual blocks and the editor will transform them into code! Features like loading schema from URL/file or a fake backend data can speed up the prototyping of your app.
- Apollo Launchpad allows you to write a GraphQL schema in JavaScript making GraphQL code very accessible.
- GraphiQL is a simple IDE tool for testing and documenting GraphQL APIs with a nice graphical interface.
- GraphQL Playground a GraphiQL alternative.
- Apollo Elements a library for building GraphQL-backed UIs without UI frameworks.
- Altair - a GraphiQL alternative
Blogs
- https://blog.apollographql.com/
- https://www.robinwieruch.de/
- https://graphqlmastery.com/blog
- https://blog.graphqleditor.com/
- https://graphql.org/blog/
- https://blog.hasura.io/tagged/graphql/
Video tutorials
Communities
- https://www.reddit.com/r/graphql
- ReactiFlux Discord (#graphql)
- spectrum.chat/apollo
Let's build this directory together! If you know any useful tools, tutorials, blogs for GraphQL post in comments and I will update list!
If you're looking for best GraphQL tutorials also check this post.
Top comments (22)
In case anyone is nervous about moving to GraphQL let me tell you I have built many REST APIs for fortune 500 companies and for myself. After using GraphQL these last 6 months I am proud to say I will never build another REST API willingly. I'm often very cautious of people that use the word "never" in this industry so that should tell you how strongly I feel about it.
Benefits of GraphQL for me ordered from most important to least important
Thank you for writing this post. I hope more people start giving GraphQL a chance because of it.
This is a good list to start with. Thanks for putting this out :)
We at Hasura recently launched learn.hasura.io - The 2 hour GraphQL Tutorial series for frontend developers. It is open-source. Would be a nice addition to the list above :)
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This is definitely my goto: howtographql.com/
Thanks, already on the list :)
There is also Altair GraphQL Client as an alternative to GraphiQL.😄
Added!
There's also GraphQL Playground as an alternative to GraphiQL. 🙂
Added :)
Hi Tomek,
I wrote a tutorial from using a practical, hands-on approach to explain concepts (examples use the GitHub GraphQL so people can try it out.) Would appreciate if you add it here: codeahoy.com/2019/10/13/graphql-pr...
Thanks
You might like Apollo Elements for building graphql-backed UIs without UI frameworks.
Thanks! Added!
There is also the Apollo GraphQL community on Spectrum: spectrum.chat/apollo
There is pretty active community related to GraphQL on the ReactiFlux Discord (look at #graphql).
Cool, updated :)
Hi, Thanks for writing this :)
I'm building GraphQL playground - Firecamp which helps developers to the genertae query collection, Save and mutate query along with other technology stacks with most attractive UI. Appreciate if you can include Firecamp under this list :)