Show HN: GraphQL Client in the Terminal

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64 points·eerimoq··10 comments

Go programmers may also be interested in this project:

https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gqlclient

Which could be used to write a similar program.

For subscriptions, you could use graphql-python/gql (https://github.com/graphql-python/gql) as a dependency instead of requests and graphql-core directly and support the websockets transport.

(This is implemented in Python)

Would love to see a Rust port as a reference for how Rustaceans would achieve comparable functionality, curious what the tradeoffs would be (complexity and LoC).

It issues HTTP requests and provides a small terminal UI. Why does the language possibly matter?

> as a reference for how Rustaceans would achieve comparable functionality

A good example would be curlie (go frontend for curl - https://github.com/rs/curlie) vs httpie (pure python - https://github.com/httpie/httpie). Originally I used httpie for its easier syntax, but it is very noticeably slower than curlie. I presume this is why they are asking for a rust version.

Another reason is that python is a bit harder to distribute due to the nature of python packaging, where as rust compiles to a single binary.

I want a single binary executable file. Doing `pip install` didn't work 19 out of 20 times I attempted it.

Cool!

Why is the better than cURL?

It is an interactive query builder that understands the schema, and lets you arrow between fields and input values.

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