GraphQL is now available in Appsmith
We have teased the availability of GraphQL CRUD operations inside Appsmith for more than a couple weeks now. And we are excited to announce it’s finally here!
Appsmith now natively supports both authenticated and unauthenticated GraphQL API endpoints with native GraphQL methods for querying your connected endpoints.
GraphQL is many things to many devs. For this feature, we will talk about GraphQL as it is understood most popularly—a query language and a runtime for your existing data.
Given how popular GraphQL is with devs in general and those using Appsmith in particular, it was a no-brainer to ship native support as soon as we could, but we had to ensure we weren’t leading you onto tricky ground for connecting a datasource, writing queries, or getting variable names from widgets. Several careful considerations later, we are ready for the expose.
GraphQL inside Appsmith supports both unauthenticated—for single-use queries—and authenticated—for reusable datasource configs like the URL and params—API endpoints. To both endpoint types, you can,
