How to Leverage Insomnia as a GraphQL Client

How to Leverage Insomnia as a GraphQL Client

Aug 24, 2021

In this video we’ll show off some of the highlights of using Insomnia as a GraphQL client. We’ll also build a tiny GraphQL server in Node.js, and then use Insomnia both to fetch and manipulate data on it. Download Insomnia: https://insomnia.rest/

Find all referenced docs and code in this blog post: https://bit.ly/3Detyla

TIMECODES

0:00 - Intro

0:30 - Designing a GraphQL Schema

1:40 - Connecting the Resolvers

3:15 - Building the Server

5:26 - Set Up Insomnia GraphQL

6:18 - Basic Queries and Mutations

6:44 - Schema Introspection

7:34 - Auto-Complete and Suggested Fields

8:05 - Plugins for Dynamic Values (Faker Plugin and Prompt)

10:25 - Wrap Up

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