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GraphQL Editor vs GraphQL Nexus: What are the differences?
What is GraphQL Editor? Online GraphQL IDE, visualize your GraphQL Schema. Visual GraphQL Editor is a visual backend editor that speed's up software development and improve's communication with non-tech people It's a is a bridge between tech and non-tech users. Professionals can import their previously written code and visualize it on diagram while newbies can link visual blocks and editor will transform them into code. Our tool makes understanding GraphQL schema a lot easier. .
What is GraphQL Nexus? Code-First, Type-Safe, GraphQL Schema Construction. It is a declarative, code-first and strongly typed GraphQL schema construction for TypeScript & JavaScript.
GraphQL Editor and GraphQL Nexus belong to "GraphQL Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by GraphQL Editor are:
- GraphQL super easy - think visually
- No code solution
- Generate queries for front end
On the other hand, GraphQL Nexus provides the following key features:
- GraphQL
- Prisma Integration
- Apollo Integration
GraphQL Editor and GraphQL Nexus are both open source tools. It seems that GraphQL Editor with 4.28K GitHub stars and 170 forks on GitHub has more adoption than GraphQL Nexus with 1.38K GitHub stars and 82 GitHub forks.
Pros of GraphQL Editor
- Visual GraphQL Editor3
- Web based GraphiQL3
- Visualize your code on diagram3
- Generate queries for front end3
- Fake / mocked backend3
- Generate code from diagram2
Pros of GraphQL Nexus
- Use with Apollo1
- Code first1