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

Ship an app and its GraphQL operations stick around for months while your schema keeps evolving. Now GA after two years of testing, App Deployments combine persisted documents, per-version observability, and conditional breaking change detection.

Apollo shipped a ground-up rewrite of its Kotlin cache with Relay-style pagination, TTL expiration at the type and field level, partial cache results, and garbage collection built in.

Hive Router v0.0.40 ships a native Rust plugin system. Implement the RouterPlugin trait, and get hooks across the full request lifecycle: add new features, modify existing behavior, or integrate with external services with full performance and safety of Rust.

It's like a BFF, but it's a BF to your agents. You get a TypeScript runtime, a discoverable tool catalog, and a single local place to connect external MCP servers, OpenAPI APIs, and GraphQL APIs.

Intigriti introduced GraphQL Cop to automate checks for introspection, alias overloading, field duplication, and DoS attacks with ready-to-run cURL examples. As GraphQL adoption surges, the utility will be a huge time-saver for security teams and developers hardening APIs.

GraphQL Armor, Escape's open-source project with The Guild, keeps climbing fast enough to surprise even Escape's CTO. You're likely using it already. Escape is hiring for those ready to don the white hat.

Apart from the embedded GraphQL & CSS linting, the new Biome release includes Vue/Svelte/Astro improvements, editor inline config, rule profiler and the configuration discovery.

A GraphQL Implementation in R was released in v0.1.0 with GraphiQL interactive IDE support, verbose error messages for easier debugging, improved mutation execution validation, and removed pryr dependency.

GraphQL Workbench is a new VS Code extension for schema design with built-in AI, from the creator of Apollo Workbench. It runs entirely local and free using Ollama and OSS models, featuring natural language operation generation, local vector storage via PGLite, federation support, schema linting, and AI-powered design analysis. It can embed even massive schemas (GitHub's 8000+ types in ~2 minutes)

Cosmo Streams adds three router handlers to enable subscription authorization, initial state delivery, and per-subscriber event filtering without building custom infrastructure.

You can now configure a distributed cache (Redis, Memcached, etc.) as a L2 cache for persisted documents, sitting between the in-memory LRU cache and the CDN. This reduces CDN calls, shares cache state across instances, improves performance and resilience in serverless and multi-instance deployments.

The GraphQL Codegen team is working on a new major version and they're looking for community feedback. If you're using Codegen in production, this is your chance to shape the future of the tool.

Migrating from legacy Apollo hooks to the client preset? The Codegen team has released a codemod that automates the tedious parts of the migration, saving you hours of manual refactoring.

Schema Proposals is a new Hive feature that brings pull request-style reviews to your GraphQL schema changes. Collaborate on schema design before committing to production.

Inigo’s GraphQL Explorer is now open source. Built to make GraphQL development smoother and more efficient, it’s now available to the community on GitHub.

Hive team has released support for App Deployments (persisted documents) in Apollo Router. This integration enables developers to publish and manage their GraphQL operations as versioned applications in the Hive Registry.

Eddy's working on enhancing the developer experience and would love your feedback on what's working and what could be better!

New feature available in Apollo Client

The open-source Modus AI API framework recently added an integrated GraphQL API explorer that improves the developer experience of building GraphQL APIs with Modus as well as a feature to extract JSDoc and GoDoc documentation strings from Modus functions and annotate the generated GraphQL schema documentation.

Network Inspector tool crosses a major milestone with 100,000 developers now using it for GraphQL development

React GraphQL Client just got faster! Major speed boost achieved through a streamlined cache feeding algorithm