Build internal tools with GraphQL
Retool makes it easy to build admin panels, dashboards, and utilities on top of your GraphQL data.
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a server-side runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.
Connecting Retool to a GraphQL API takes just a few minutes, and lets you to build user interfaces quickly on top of your own data. For example, you can render users from your API into a Table, and then PUT back an approval for each.
Retool supports both reading and writing (including with variables) from GraphQL. And you can combine GraphQL data with other datasources, including databases (e.g. Postgres), and other APIs (e.g. Stripe, Firebase, etc.).
Matthew Clower
CTO at Treasure Financial
Retool changes the unit economics of building. Tooling problems can be eliminated by one engineer in hours with Retool. Within 2 months, the time we spent on business interruptions fell below 8% from 75%. With Retool, we’ve saved over $1M in engineering capacity to focus on improving our product experience.
Supported operations for GraphQL
Read documentationQuery
Perform any simple or complex GraphQL query.
Mutate
Add or modify your data with mutations.
Variables
Pass dynamic variables from your app to your GraphQL query.
What you can build with Retool
View all templatesIn Retool, you can join GraphQL with anything
Retool connects to most databases and nearly anything with a REST or GraphQL API. Read in data from mongoDB, join it via SQL, record user approvals, and POST the result to Stripe to create invoices.
Retool empowers you to work with all of your data sources inside of a single app.
