Enable Remote Control in GraphQL Inspector

The new version of GraphQL Inspector comes with remote control of Pull Requests and Pushes via HTTP endpoint. You’re in charge of accepting or rejecting changes, even if they break the GraphQL API.

We recently released a lot more interesting features. You can read about them in “New GraphQL Inspector and upcoming features” article.

What Is Remote Control?

Think of it as a way to intercept Schema Checks done by GraphQL Inspector and report back a conclusion:

to fail or not to fail

Every Push or opened Pull Request is checked with GraphQL Inspector and based on the changes in a schema, it decides whether to reject those changes. We don’t want to stop you there so Inspector lets you review changes and decide what to do.

The idea is simple. You create an HTTP endpoint, like serverless function or whatever and on every Push or Pull Request we send you a list of changes with all the details (mainly criticality level) and Inspector expects to receive back a conclusion and changes.

export default (req, res) => {
  const changes = req.body.changes
  const conclusion = decide(changes)
 
  res.json({
    changes,
    conclusion
  })
}

The HTTP endpoint will also receive details about a Pull Request or a Commit that triggered the schema check, so possibilities are endless here.

You’re able to reject all Pull Requests done by your manager, even when there are no breaking changes.

Future Plans

We’re working on Azure and Bitbucket integrations plus a monitoring feature. Talk to us to try it out.

We want to make Azure and Bitbucket a first-class citizens in GraphQL Inspector and give you the same experience as you get right now with GitHub.

Monitoring will enable you to analyze the traffic of your GraphQL APIs and provide details needed to improve performance. Collecting information about the usage will let you safely remove deprecated pieces of GraphQL Schema.

If you’re interested, please reach out to us!

Enjoy GraphQL Inspector!

We have big plans for Inspector, and you’re very welcome to join us in that journey.

GraphQL Inspector is a tool created by developers, for developers and that’s why we’d love to get your feedback and shape GraphQL Inspector together!

Oh… and it’s Open Sourced!