Laravel GraphQL Playground

Easily integrate GraphQL Playground into your Laravel projects.

Please note: This is not a GraphQL Server implementation, only a UI for testing and exploring your schema. For the server component we recommend nuwave/lighthouse.

Installation

composer require mll-lab/laravel-graphql-playground

If you are using Laravel < 5.4, add the service provider to your config/app.php

'providers' => [
    // Other providers...
    MLL\GraphQLPlayground\GraphQLPlaygroundServiceProvider::class,
]

If you are using Lumen, register the service provider in bootstrap/app.php

$app->register(MLL\GraphQLPlayground\GraphQLPlaygroundServiceProvider::class);

Configuration

By default, the playground is reachable at /graphql-playground and assumes a running GraphQL endpoint at /graphql.

To change the defaults, publish the configuration with the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MLL\GraphQLPlayground\GraphQLPlaygroundServiceProvider" --tag=config

You will find the configuration file at config/graphql-playground.php.

If you are using Lumen, copy it into that location manually and load the configuration in your boostrap/app.php:

$app->configure('graphql-playground');

Customization

To customize the Playground even further, publish the view:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MLL\GraphQLPlayground\GraphQLPlaygroundServiceProvider" --tag=views

You can use that for all kinds of customization.

Change settings of the playground instance

Check https://github.com/prisma/graphql-playground#properties for the allowed config options, for example:

<div id="root" />
<script type="text/javascript">
  window.addEventListener('load', function (event) {
    const loadingWrapper = document.getElementById('loading-wrapper');
    loadingWrapper.classList.add('fadeOut');
    const root = document.getElementById('root');
    root.classList.add('playgroundIn');
    GraphQLPlayground.init(root, {
      endpoint: "{{url(config('graphql-playground.endpoint'))}}",
      settings: {
        'request.credentials': 'same-origin',
      },
    })
  })
</script>

Configure session authentication

If you use GraphQL through sessions and CSRF, add the following to the header:

<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">

Modify the Playground config like so:

GraphQLPlayground.init(root, {
  endpoint: "{{url(config('graphql-playground.endpoint'))}}",
  settings: {
    'request.credentials': 'same-origin',
  },
+ headers: {
+   'X-CSRF-TOKEN': document.querySelector('meta[name="csrf-token"]').content
+ }
})

Local assets

If you want to serve the assets from your own server, you can download them with the command

php artisan graphql-playground:download-assets

This puts the necessary CSS, JS and Favicon into your public directory. If you have the assets downloaded, they will be used instead of the online version from the CDN.

Security

If you do not want to enable the GraphQL playground in production, you can disable it in the config file. The easiest way is to set the environment variable GRAPHQL_PLAYGROUND_ENABLED=false

If you want to add custom middleware to protect the route to the GraphQL playground, you can add it in the configuration file.