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Postman GraphQL Client

I talked about interacting with GraphQL API's through Postman before. It started with no specific support at all and evolved to some basic features over time. With the 10.10 release GraphQL became a first class citizen, a good indication of the popularity and maturity of the GraphQL ecosystem.

When you open up Postman and you click on New, you get a GraphQL request among the list of available options:

Now you get a request window specifically tailored to GraphQL request.

If we enter the schema url in the request url bar, the client will automatically introspect the schema:

Now we can use the built-in query builder to start writing our GraphQL queries. This is really useful for people who are new in the GraphQL ecosystem and are not used yet to the specific syntax. We can click on the fields we want to fetch and can specify any parameters inline:

This not only works for writing queries, but we can also use the query builder for Mutations and Subscriptions:

Nice!

Remark: The GraphQL support is still in beta and I noticed some issues here and there. But I really like how the support is evolving.

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