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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

You're reading from   Jumpstart Jamstack Development Build and deploy modern websites and web apps using Gatsby, Netlify, and Sanity

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203495
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christopher Pecoraro Christopher Pecoraro
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Vincenzo Gambino Vincenzo Gambino
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: History of the Jamstack 2. Chapter 2: Introduction to Sanity FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Exploring Sanity Studio 4. Chapter 4: Sanity Configuration and Schemas 5. Chapter 5: Sanity's GROQ Language 6. Chapter 6: Sanity's GraphQL Playground 7. Chapter 7: Gatsby – An Introduction 8. Chapter 8: Gatsby and GraphQL 9. Chapter 9: Gatsby Source Plugins 10. Chapter 10: Building Gatsby Components 11. Chapter 11: APIs – Extending Gatsby 12. Chapter 12: APIs – Alexa Skills 13. Chapter 13: Tying It All Together 14. Chapter 14: Deployment Using Netlify and Azure 15. Chapter 15: Conclusion 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

GraphiQL, a GraphQL navigator

GraphiQL (pronounced graphical) is similar to GraphQL Playground, which we learned about in Chapter 6, Sanity's GraphQL Playground. GraphQL Playground uses components of GraphiQL, and in fact, at the time of writing, the two projects are merging and will become one.

As mentioned in Chapter 7, Gatsby - An Introduction, by typing the following command from the command line, Gatsby will start an instance of GraphiQL at http://localhost:8000/graphql:

gatsby develop

In the text output from the command, Gatsby will provide the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Here is an excerpt of the output:

...
View GraphiQL, an in-browser IDE, to explore your site's data and schema
  http://localhost:8000/___graphql
...

By clicking on the http://localhost:8000/graphql URL if possible or, optionally, simply typing the URL into the browser, the GraphiQL GraphQL Integrated Development Environment (IDE) will appear. Notice that there are three...

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