A weekly newsletter of the best news, articles and projects about GraphQL

GraphQL Hive replaced its GraphQL Playground with a new Laboratory, redesigned around familiar code editor interaction patterns. It focuses on improving the day-to-day experience of writing operations, managing execution context, and debugging.

Apollo published a set of Skills for AI coding assistants. Install them into Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot and your agent starts writing proper nullability, named operations, and error handling without you having to repeat yourself every session.

Latest WordPress GraphQL plugin update adds siteIcon/siteIconUrl fields, extra settings sanitization, dependency bump to graphql-php 15.29.4, and GraphiQL IDE improvements for better local dev experience.

Apollo's update enables streaming large lists in GraphQL queries (no waiting for full data), improving perceived performance for incremental UI updates.

Apollo MCP Server reaches 1.0, bringing stable support for Model Context Protocol integrations. Connect your GraphQL APIs to AI assistants with confidence.

Apollo iOS 2.0 is here with Swift concurrency support, improved code generation, and a modernized API surface. A significant upgrade for iOS developers working with GraphQL.

GraphCMS, the original GraphQL native Headless CMS, have announced a complete rebuild of their product with a line of new features. They've released content stages, union types (polymorphic relations), sortable relations and assets, filters on lists, and drastically updated webhooks. Furthermore their new GraphQL core engine shows massive performance gains of up to 40x in response times (in some larger and more complex queries, they have measured almost 100x gains). They're also hiring for new talent, specifically in backend, frontend, marketing, and sales.