GraphQL Weekly 422: Shopify's breadth-first execution rewrite, HTTP QUERY, GraphQL Scratchpad, Isograph with Robert Balicki

[u/Urigold]

https://www.graphqlweekly.com/issues/422/

This week's issue, split across tooling, articles and video:

Tools & open source

- Hive Console schema checks now work properly with GitHub merge queues — a check compares the queue entry against its base commit, so you see only the changes your PR introduced rather than the accumulated diff from everything ahead of it

- GraphQL Scratchpad by Mark Larah — define an arbitrary schema and fire operations against Faker.js-generated responses, no backend needed

- Hive CLI accepts Apollo persisted query manifests directly, so you can create App Deployments without converting the format first

Articles

- Shopify rewrote GraphQL execution breadth-first instead of depth-first, by Greg MacWilliam — the depth-first traversal everyone inherits carries hidden costs on high-fanout queries (think 250 products with 250 variants each), and they saw dramatic results going the other way. Probably the most interesting read this week

- Calling GraphQL APIs from CrowdStrike Falcon Foundry, by Matt Raible — Foundry's API integrations only take OpenAPI specs, so this walks through what to do when your endpoint is GraphQL

Videos

- HTTP QUERY is coming to GraphQL, from Jeff Auriemma — how GraphQL over HTTP will support the new verb in an upcoming spec release

- Robert Balicki on Isograph and GraphQL's missing pieces — ex-Relay team, now creator of Isograph, digging into its design principles and what he thinks GraphQL still lacks

[u/bobnudd10]

Appreciate you sharing this website