What is GraphOS Explorer?

When we create platform APIs for our developers, we need a way for them to easily get the data they need from them. With GraphOS, we do that using Explorer.

GraphOS Explorer is a powerful web IDE for creating, running, and managing GraphQL operations. We can access it for any graph in GraphOS and it's packaged in a way that you can integrate it into any environment.

Follow-along: A delightful consumption experience

1. Head over to the E-commerce graph: https://studio.apollographql.com/graph/Retail-Supergraph-6bnnli/variant/current/explorer

When Explorer has loaded succesfully, you'll see the "ExampleQuery" button. Click it to run the example query

Explorer tour

The Explorer consists of three main panels we'll be working with. Let's go over each of them one-by-one.

• Documentation: Where developers can easily browse your API's.

  https://studio.apollographql.com/graph/Retail-Supergraph-6bnnli/explorer

  

• Operation: Where you write your GraphQL operation. You can type it in directly, use Explorer's autocomplete, or add fields from the Documentation panel. Click the blue button to run your query.

• Response: Where you can view your response data after running a query, in JSON or table view.

That's it for the guided tour—let's actually try it out!