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Altair is a beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client IDE for all platforms. Available for MacOS, Windows, Linux, Chrome, Firefox. It enables you interact with any GraphQL server you are authorized to access from any platform you are on.

-- the GraphQL IDE that does not require running a web server

Features

See details here: https://altairgraphql.dev/docs/features

Sponsors

Thanks to all our sponsors for sponsoring this project! Do you use Altair GraphQL client at your company? Consider supporting this project as a major sponsor (primary, gold, silver or bronze) on open collective.

Primary Sponsor

XKojiMedia

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Gold Sponsor

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Bronze Sponsor

Other Sponsors

Usage

For mac users, you can also install using cask:

$ brew install --cask altair-graphql-client

For linux users, you can also install using snap:

$ snap install altair

For arch linux users, an AUR package aur/altair exists:

$ yay -S altair

For windows users, you can install using chocolatey:

$ choco install altair-graphql

...or winget:

$ winget install -e --id altair-graphql.altair

You can find other available integrations here: https://altairgraphql.dev/docs/integrations

Configuration Options

When using a custom instance of Altair, there are couple of options you can use to customize Altair based on your needs:

  • endpointURL string - URL to set as the server endpoint
  • subscriptionsEndpoint string - URL to set as the subscription endpoint
  • initialSubscriptionsProvider "websocket" | "graphql-ws" | "app-sync" | "action-cable" - Initial subscriptions provider
  • initialQuery string - Initial query to be added
  • initialVariables string - Initial variables to be added (in JSON format) e.g. '{ "var1": "first variable" }'
  • initialPreRequestScript string - Initial pre-request script to be added e.g. 'altair.helpers.getEnvironment("api_key")'
  • initialHeaders IDictionary - Initial headers object to be added
{
  'X-GraphQL-Token': 'asd7-237s-2bdk-nsdk4'
}
  • initialEnvironments IInitialEnvironments - Initial Environments to be added
{
  base: {
    title: 'Environment',
    variables: {}
  },
  subEnvironments: [
    {
      title: 'sub-1',
      variables: {}
    }
  ]
}
  • instanceStorageNamespace string - Namespace for storing the data for the altair instance. Use this when you have multiple altair instances running on the same domain. e.g. 'altair_dev_'

Example usage:

AltairGraphQL.init({
  endpointURL: 'https://www.example.com/graphql',
  initialVariables: '{ "username": "imolorhe" }',
});

Supported Browsers

Altair has been tested in the latest versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It might not work as expected in other browsers like Safari and Edge.

Community 🙏🏾

You can learn more about how to get help here.

Contributing

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Donate to Altair

Learn more about contributing to Altair here and here.

Development

Read more here.

Deployment

API

Docker

The docker image can be built from the Dockerfile at the root of the repo.

Digitalocean

Deploy to DO

Vercel

Deploy with Vercel

Render

Deploy to Render

License

FOSSA Status