Querying with Apollo Sandbox

Apollo Sandbox is an environment that gives you the ability to explore a GraphQL API. It's a special mode of Apollo Studio that helps with development. Sandbox loads a running GraphQL server's schema. Like the one we're about to explore!

Head over to Apollo Sandbox: https://studio.apollographql.com/sandbox/explorer

Connect to the GraphQL API by pasting this link to the top left (right next to "Sandbox")

Let's check out the Explorer together!

1. Add the Query field from left sidebar (click on + icon). This will start to build our operation in the middle section.

2. Rename query Query to a better operation name: query HomepageLocations

   Tip: We use PascalCase for operation names! Clear operation names will be helpful when we analyze our supergraph metrics later on.

3. Add the locations field.

   query HomepageLocations {
     locations {
   
     }
   }

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4. Add the name field.

   query HomepageLocations {
     locations {
       name
     }
   }

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5. Run the query!

Let's finish the rest of it in the next lesson.