Announcement "Retiring Graphql Playground"

[robsontenorio]

Considering this post:

graphql/graphql-playground#1143

Do you have any intention to publish a new package for GraphiQL ?

[mfn]

That would be interesting…

I never fully understood in which direction GraphiQL went. Their initial version was a primitive set of HTML+JS and thus another project https://github.com/rebing/graphql-laravel/blob/master/resources/views/graphiql.php just "amalgated" the sources into the project itself; due to some customization a cleaner integration wasn't possible.

But a few years ago GraphiQL turned into behemoth you needed to compile with lots-o-dependencies I never fully understood, that's why the integrated version in rebing/graphql-laravel was never updated.

(it also wasn't removed or separated from above package because having this out of the box on dev machines is just really extremely convenient)

[spawnia]

I might do one for Altair, considering https://github.com/XKojiMedia/laravel-altair-graphql is not maintained actively.

Progress on GraphiQL seems to have stalled, as long as that is the case I won't do anything with it.

[robsontenorio]

@spawnia currently Playground works great. But there are lacks of updates and new features like “explorer”.

I would go with big players like Graphiql. But it is just a suggestion.

[mfn]

DISCLAIMER: This is a port of laravel-graphql-playground from @spawnia of mll-lab, but for Altair GraphQL Client.

Oh 😅

[imolorhe]

Yup! Please anyone that wants to maintain https://github.com/XKojiMedia/laravel-altair-graphql is very welcome to do so 😄 I don't work with PHP or laravel regularly enough to keep maintaining it

[acao]

@robsontenorio I maintain both graphiql or graphql-playground. Impressed you think I'm a big player, I just make GraphiQL in my free time. @imolorhe is a co-maintainer :)