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gschier
I'm the creator of Insomnia and I'd love to hear your feedback if you try it out! I'm still a novice to GraphQL, so I'd like to make sure that it accommodates all use cases.

~ Gregory

tbrock
Cool. Insomnia is quite good. I prefer it over Paw (for MacOS only) because it is cross platform and I only want to learn one tool that works on both Mac and Linux.

Thanks for all the hard work!

gschier
Glad to hear it. Thanks for the kind words!
thejosh
I've been using Insomia for a while, and really, really like it (hence why I submitted this post here :D).

The GraphQL support looks good, and will try it out with our backend.

gschier
Awesome, thanks for posting :)

Be sure to submit any issues you may have via Slack/GitHub/Email

kevinSuttle
I think as long as it's good or better than GraphIQL, you've got an advantage.
max23_
Timely update as I am learning GraphQL with it and it is simpler now to define the request body.

Great work and keep it up.

gschier
Nice! That's exactly why I implemented it (I just learned it too for a side project)
dfischer
Hey simple question: mobile now... does this support sending auth headers per request?
johnhenry
Gregory, thanks for introducing Insomnia to the world and thanks for continuing to make it better!
mp01
What's the difference between using this and using graphiql?
gschier
Lots, actually. Since Insomnia is a full-featured HTTP testing tool, you can use all other Insomnia features with GraphQL like setting custom headers, filtering responses with JSONPath, Nunjucks templating, etc.
FullMtlAlcoholc
This is fantastic news as I loved your tool, but it fell out of favor as I startee using graphQL more.

Definitely looking forward to ditching graphiQL!

Does it support imports for graph. cool?

gschier
I haven't used graph.cool yet but as far as I can tell it's just another GraphQL backend so yes, it should work just the same.
hn_throwaway_99
I'm curious as to why you want to ditch graphiQL. I find graphiQL to be one of the best things about the GraphQL ecosystem.
FullMtlAlcoholc
Purely aesthetics. I'm a weirdo, but a pretty UI really enhances my development experience. I'll use a less functional product if it pleases my pupils, like Hyper over iTerm2. (Not saying insomnia is less functional, it's just very pretty :)
baconomatic
Perhaps I'm missing it, but it appears this only works with POST requests?
tylerpachal
You are probably correct. The server-side GQL implementations I have worked on expect only POST requests, and expect each requests' body to contain a query or a mutation.