Graphql-playground: [Proposal] Explorer

[robinweser]

Over at OneGraph we've built and just recently open sourced an Explorer plugin for GraphiQL: https://github.com/OneGraph/graphiql-explorer.

Check out the introduction blog post to learn why and how we built it and how it works.

After talking to @schickling, I would love to see adding it to the Playground as well, as more and more people are using it instead of GraphiQL. Porting should be fairly simple, but I might need some help with the styling.

I will add a PR that adds the explorer as is soon.
Some guidance and feedback would then be super useful. (cc @Huvik)

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Probably not related to this issue itself:

Note: I did not check the source code yet, so if there already is something like that - forget about it.

Maybe we should think about some kind of plugin system? Seeing #935 and having some more stuff coming up soon, it might be useful to have a simple way to add those.
Might be enough to register a menu button that toggles a panel which is passed all the available data.

[huv1k]

Hey @rofrischmann that looks fantastic! I can see explorer be part of documentation drawer on right side.

If you need any guidance you can check the latest addition of SDL view #897 or ping me here or twitter. Regarding feedback, it should somehow reflect whole playground UI and styling to fit the whole theme of the playground.

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Plugins are a bigger topic, I have a working draft for plugin architecture, but I need to finish it. There are few issues addressing it #235 #648. And yea one of plugins proposed in my draft is a sidebar plugin what is adding panes to documentation.

[Nishchit14]

Interesting!! @rofrischmann you guys did a fantastic job by creating Explorer

I'm wondering if I can help to implement in GraphQL-Playground. would happy to contribute.

Here, I'm building a web playground for GraphQL using OneGraph's Explorer and APIs.guru's Voyager.

Demo is here https://fireql.dev/?url=https://api.spacex.land/graphql

Rich Desktop App: https://firecamp.io/graphql

[ConProgramming]

Is this going anywhere?

[sahilrajput03]

Whats the status of this issue???

[acao]

this repo will soon be archived as per the announcement earlier this year! no new features unfortunately. someone should fork it!

[wtrocki]

I would recomend to take look into upcoming https://github.com/graphql/graphiql
It is going to have a lot of features. Any suggestions can be logged there.