graphql-playground

Have you tried something like GraphQL playground before? https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground There's other tools out there that can generate similar docs or playgrounds, given you have a schema/spec of some type.

> FYI, GraphiQL is deprecated, GraphQL Playground is a good alternative. You have this backwards. https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground/issues/1366#is... https://github.com/graphql/graphiql

I use IntelliJ, in our setup it gives complete checking and autocomplete. YMMV It sounds to me like you could benefit from some kind of codegen [1] to generate native language code out of graphql and checking the queries at compile/build-time instead of runtime. GraphQL playground [2] might be a lower-investment tool to help you. [1] In JS/TS GraphQL code generator is the standard: https://www.graphql-code-generator.com/ Other languages have similar tools. [2] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground

We've been working on a GraphQL IDE that sits on top of GraphiQL but provides many additional features: https://github.com/graphcool/graphql-playground It has a more user-friendly documentation than GraphiQL as well as tabs and a history of previous operations. It also supports realtime GraphQL subscriptions and conforms to the industry-standard graphql-config format. Further, it allows to easily share your Playground and has support for query performance tracing :) Definitely check it out if you haven't seen it before

Moving the responsibility of combining data to the server is a huge advantage for many organisations. It allows application developers to move much quicker and provides a common data access layer for all applications. It sounds to me like you are over-indexing on the burden placed on the backend developer in your evaluation and not considering the whole picture. From my experience, the biggest advantage of GraphQL is that having a well defined standard allows the community to build advanced tooling such as https://github.com/graphcool/graphql-playground by Graphcool and all the cool stuff Sashko is talking about in this presentation.