GraphQL Voyager

Dev tools

api visualisation

SHOW HN2017

163points
29comments
#227of 2,242 in 2017
Top 11%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

7 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.

Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Nicely done and useful for explaining schemas to domain experts

    From 3 comments
    • This is really nicely done. Our customers have been asking us to provide a better visual representation of their schemas directly in the https://graph.cool schema editor. Are you…
      sorenbs on HN
    • Nice work! This would be great if it could be pluggable for relational schemas. The interactivity is nice for explaining the schema with domain experts.
      bruth on HN
    • Awesome project! Our customers building GraphQL apps on https://scaphold.io would really appreciate something like this. We currently have a Schema Designer that's fairly…
      vning93 on HN
  • Excellent idea that people have wanted

    From 1 comment
    • This is really excellent! I've been hoping for a while now that someone would build something like this :-) A direction that'd be interesting to explore is a guided query writer.…
      kylemathews on HN

Objections

  • Broken or hard to use on small screens

    From 2 comments
    • Disappointed to see this broken on small screens. Why it's assumed developers don't do work on mobile devices is beyond me. http://kevinsuttle.com/posts/dx-on-mobile-devices
      kevinSuttle on HN
    • iPhone 6S Plus. https://cl.ly/160K0O3R2I2l
      kevinSuttle on HN
  • Missing LICENSE file made copyright unclear

    From 2 comments
    • In the README it says mit license but I can't see a LICENSE.txt file, does that matter? It's a really cool project that makes me want to try GraphQL btw.
      ben_jones on HN
    • does that matter? It depends on how likely you are to be sued for using this. On the one hand, it's clear that the intent is to MIT license the software. On the other hand, the…
      dsp1234 on HN

Requests

  • Guided query writer linked to the visualization

    From 1 comment
    • This is really excellent! I've been hoping for a while now that someone would build something like this :-) A direction that'd be interesting to explore is a guided query writer.…
      kylemathews on HN
  • Support for relational schemas

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work! This would be great if it could be pluggable for relational schemas. The interactivity is nice for explaining the schema with domain experts.
      bruth on HN
  • Integration into graph.cool schema editor

    From 1 comment
    • This is really nicely done. Our customers have been asking us to provide a better visual representation of their schemas directly in the https://graph.cool schema editor. Are you…
      sorenbs on HN

Questions

  • Where to find a generic introspection query

    From 1 comment
    • Where can one find a generic introspection query that can be used to produce output this tool will accept?
      jrmiii on HN
  • Are pull requests accepted

    From 1 comment
    • This is really nicely done. Our customers have been asking us to provide a better visual representation of their schemas directly in the https://graph.cool schema editor. Are you…
      sorenbs on HN

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