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GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

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Re: GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

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Post by aexol »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #20
aexol wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will try to show it to some project managers and business oriented people. Thanks again!

Be careful not to swing too far in the other direction. Users who are unfamiliar with your tool will immediately just want something easy and obvious. You shouldn’t be afraid of having a learning curve if the user can gain fluidity and efficiency. The tricky part is that learning curves will never survive a five minute new-user review, so you have to find more invested users who are willing to do expert reviews. User…

Good advice! I definitely don't want to make another layer of abstraction as I answered to another question. Maybe I will think about some examples and on-boarding. I will transfer your response to issues tomorrow :)

Re: GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

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Post by sntran »

aexol wrote: post #12
sntran wrote: post #6

On a related note, can someone recommend a good modern library to build similar visual block editor? Blocky is good, but it shows its age. Preferably not depend on React.

Try slothking-online/diagram is the library we use in GraphQL editor. It’s react dependent though :/

Yeah, I checked your package.json and checked OLED out slothking-online/diagram. The dependence on React is a stopper for me.

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Post by dangoor »

adamkl wrote: post #11
dangoor wrote: post #7

This is really cool. We already have a large GraphQL schema that we'd like to make some changes to. It'd be nice to be able to bring in our existing schema to visualize.

If you are just looking for visualization, you can use GraphQL Voyager [1]. Either set it up in your application, or you can use the hosted version passing in the URL of your API (you might need to configure CORS): https://apis.guru/graphql-voyager/?url=%20https://dog-graphq... [1] https://github.com/APIs-guru/graphql-voyager

Thanks for the tip! I’ll give that a shot

Re: GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

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Post by aexol »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #20
aexol wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will try to show it to some project managers and business oriented people. Thanks again!

Be careful not to swing too far in the other direction. Users who are unfamiliar with your tool will immediately just want something easy and obvious. You shouldn’t be afraid of having a learning curve if the user can gain fluidity and efficiency. The tricky part is that learning curves will never survive a five minute new-user review, so you have to find more invested users who are willing to do expert reviews. User…

Hi I resolved some issues: blinking cursor added, connection possible both ways . Those were issues of https://github.com/slothking-online/diagram package, right now I am going to update this dependency in graphql editor :)
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