Reference Material
API Reference
The Stitch IDE has an interactive schema explorer that includes API reference docs, available here. Click the tab labeled Docs on the top right to open the explorer. Visit this page for more information on how the IDE works.
GraphQL
GraphQL Specification is the official specification of the GraphQL language.
GraphQL Learn provides a more approachable introduction to GraphQL.
For more information about integrating with a GraphQL API from scratch, please see our blog post: How to integrate Stitch using GraphQL
Relay
Stitch aims to maintain compatibility with the Relay Server Specification.
Apollo Server
Stitch currently uses Apollo Server to serve API requests.
Helpful GraphQL Libraries
While it is easy enough to query a GraphQL API using standard HTTP libraries, it is often more convenient to use dedicated libraries for this purpose. Many of them contain features that help correctly type the return types of features, and enable potential query optimizations.
Here are a list of some useful GraphQL libraries:
| Library | Description | Platform/Language |
|---|---|---|
| Relay | A JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications | React |
| Apollo Client | 🚀 A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server | Javascript, React |
| graphql-dotnet | 🥅 A GraphQL Client for .NET | .NET |
| prisma-labs/graphql-request | 📡 Minimal GraphQL client supporting Node and browsers for scripts or simple apps | Node, Javascript |
| Apollo iOS | 📱 A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift | iOS, Swift |
| Apollo Kotlin | 📟 A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for Android, Kotlin and the JVM | Android, Kotlin, Java |
| graphql-java | ☕️ A Java library for building GraphQL APIs. | Java |
| GraphQL Kotlin | 📦 A collection of libraries built on top of graphql-java that simplify running GraphQL clients and servers in Kotlin | Kotlin |
| GQL | 🐍 A GraphQL client for Python 3.6+ that can be used in either async or sync mode. | Python |
| Async-graphql | ⚙️ Async-graphql is a high-performance server-side library that supports all GraphQL specifications. | Rust |
| zino-app/graphql-flutter | 🦋 A GraphQL client implementation in Flutter. | Flutter |
Awesome GraphQL and GraphQL Code maintain lists with a lot more useful GraphQL libraries and tools. It is likely that your preferred platform or language will have at least one or two libraries within these lists.