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June 14, 2022

How to use Apollo Sandbox on your localhost

Two years ago we set out to build Apollo Explorer – the GraphQL IDE we felt was missing from the GraphQL community. And last summer, we made Explorer available for local development by releasing it in Apollo Sandbox. But Sandbox still ran on the Apollo Studio domain, and our #1 challenge has been distributing Explorer […]

June 9, 2022

How to embed Explorer for a private graph

Strong documentation is an essential best practice for any GraphQL API. One of the best parts of GraphQL is that it’s self-documenting, but nearly every engineering organization has additional internal documentation sites and dev portals designed to provide developers additional context and make them more successful. To prevent context switching, GraphQL API documentation is often […]

June 7, 2022

Improved embedding for Apollo Explorer!

Embed private graphs, use embeds to invite new users, and use improved Apollo Client Dev Tools. Explorer is an incredible GraphQL IDE that makes it quick and easy to browse schemas and run operations against them. It’s so awesome, that our community asked us to make it embeddable so that it could be used anywhere […]