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GraphQL Client in the Terminal

Shown by eerimoq on Jun 4, 2022. Click the card to turn it over.

64points

10comments

#830of 2,570 in 2022

Top 33%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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Interactive query builder that understands the schema
From 1 comment
- It is an interactive query builder that understands the schema, and lets you arrow between fields and input values.
  codefreakxff on HN
Simple positive reception
From 1 comment
- Cool!
  RedShift1 on HN

pip install is unreliable; wants a single binary
From 1 comment
- I want a single binary executable file. Doing `pip install` didn't work 19 out of 20 times I attempted it.
  pdimitar on HN
Python is slower and harder to distribute than compiled tools
From 1 comment
- A good example would be curlie (go frontend for curl - https://github.com/rs/curlie) vs httpie (pure python - https://github.com/httpie/httpie). Originally I used httpie for its…
  imran-iq on HN

Port to Rust
From 1 comment
- (This is implemented in Python) Would love to see a Rust port as a reference for how Rustaceans would achieve comparable functionality, curious what the tradeoffs would be…
  metadat on HN
Add websocket subscriptions via gql library
From 1 comment
- For subscriptions, you could use graphql-python/gql (https://github.com/graphql-python/gql) as a dependency instead of requests and graphql-core directly and support the…
  hleszek on HN

Why is it better than cURL?
From 1 comment
- Why is the better than cURL?
  nothingisconvex on HN
Why does the implementation language matter?
From 1 comment
- It issues HTTP requests and provides a small terminal UI. Why does the language possibly matter?
  datalopers on HN

cURL
From 1 comment
- Why is the better than cURL?
  nothingisconvex on HN
httpie
From 1 comment
- A good example would be curlie (go frontend for curl - https://github.com/rs/curlie) vs httpie (pure python - https://github.com/httpie/httpie). Originally I used httpie for its…
  imran-iq on HN
curlie
From 1 comment
- A good example would be curlie (go frontend for curl - https://github.com/rs/curlie) vs httpie (pure python - https://github.com/httpie/httpie). Originally I used httpie for its…
  imran-iq on HN
gqlclient (Go)
From 1 comment
- Go programmers may also be interested in this project: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gqlclient Which could be used to write a similar program.
  smlavine on HN