Reviews & Comments of Apollo Client Devtools chrome extension

I downloaded the chrome extension. It's not working. I also downloaded the firefox extension. Also not working. The extension doesn't even show up when you open the dev tools.

Doesn't work and isn't sufficiently documented

It doesn't do anything. The Queries tab, Mutations tab and Cache tab are all always blank, 100% of the time.

Doesnt work on Mac OSX

Most reviews mention that the extension is not working probably because they are trying to access a live site. It works perfectly well for http://localhost. If not try adding `connectToDevTools: true` property to your ApolloClient instance. The team should have mentioned this properly in the description

Doesn't work.

Disappears

Congrats guys, this is one of the worst extensions that I have ever seen! ??

Just Simply Awful! ?

Would be a very helpful tool IF IT WORKED. Does not show up at all. The cache is always empty unless you refresh the page. Sad times.

It doesn't work Please don't make useless extension

This extension causes hydration warnings when used on a page with Remix. It also seems to rarely work. Sometimes it will capture and show GraphQL requests, but usually it doesn't.

Useless, it only works when your browser location is https://studio.apollographql.com

Nice support for apollo with great overview over queries, cache and even firing your queries manually. Only problem for me, it used to be working in chrome, but now it doesn't seem to register the apollo-client or it's simply broken. Though it works in my firefox.

Doesn't work. Also doesn't work in edge (I understand that it's not officially supported)

Editing review with greater stars, this is a great tool but I frequently have to uninstall and reinstall for it to appear/function properly.

This never works. I cannot rate it properly I only seen it once. and it is now gone forever. this is the most unreliable chrome extensions.

It doesn't work right , 탭 1개만 놔두고 작동시키면 된다고 해서 작동은 해봤는데 그 다음 기능들이 제대로 작동이 되는게 없네요..

Does not work, i can see the queries for a brief quarter of a second then everything goes blank. Useless.

Totally freaking broken. Apollo Studio opens up and covers critical UI components and buttons.

This is great in concept, but it is so incredibly buggy.

Completely broken. Doesn't work at all, and as a bonus, it breaks GCP Console. Good thing we decided to really lean into GraphQL with Apollo!

This break gcp dashboard... took me some time to figure out wasting my time...

Used to work but doesnt anymore

It worked but doesn't work now.

Doesn't work.

It doesn't work (doesn't show anything in my RCA apollo project)

Doesn't actually display anything for me when trying to debug a local React app using Apollo...

Keeps disappearing from Chrome

Doesn't work anymore

always disappears from devtools. relaunching chrome usually fixes this but this is so inconvenient

It would be so useful, but it doesn't work at all. E.g. no queries are intercepted, the extension does nothing.

Amazing app.

Close the whole browser and then open it again to see the Apollo in chrome dev tools :-)

Doesn't work at all. Use "Altair GraphQL Client" instead...

not working

Does not show up in incognito mode, even though I enable the extension to work in incognito mode.

Works well for me!

Really love this extension when it works. Unfortunately more often than not it doesn't show up in the chrome dev tools at all.

2021, still buggy. Great when it works. Half the time doesn't work. Just doesn't show up in dev tools. I don't know how to make it work. Without changing anything, it will just start working sometimes.

No idea how to make it show up. The tab doesn't show up in chrome devtools.

It used to work somewhat before, now after the facelift it just stops working after a while and only restarting the browser helps getting it back on. Such a pity, it's such a great tool!

Doesn't support subscriptions

I normally don't leave bad reviews, but this tool is the most frustrating tool I've ever worked with. - Since a recent update, the cursor is black on a very dark background - bad css - Documentation explorer collapses while writing mutations or queries (I want to keep it open while writing queries and mutations). - Click-to-generate query panel that it used to support is gone since update. - The absolute worst part about the tool is that the Apollo tools extension only shows up once in a while - sometimes it just doesn't show up?! Sorry to say, but this tool could be so much better than it is, and it needs more work for me to recommend it. If you're considering Apollo, I'm sorry to say that I would avoid it if I could.

used to be awesome. Then it became buggy. Then it worked good for some time. Now they updated it, but its very buggy. Queries can no longer directly be run because it does not copy over Fragments.

Just like Apollo: total garbage! This was semi-decent until a recent update which gave us a new UI but a broken tool: 1) Queries do not show up. Sometime if you open and close and reload the page they will. This was a problem with old versions but not it happens all the time! 2) On the rate occasion that the query does show up running it via GraphiQL usually sends the wrong parameters. This was not a problem with the old version.

As of 3.0.4, when I refresh the page ACTIVE QUERIES quickly appears with 1 query and then disappears after the page loads. It would be super helpful to be able to copy a query and variables to reproduce issues.

whenever I open this extension, my laptop's fan will run like crazy.

The latest version has been terrible. We have been using the apollo dev tools for years now and the latest update has caused so many issues. It's very flakey to pull in schema, or any graphql information. I think it happens when my app's authentication runs out. After I log back in, I am unable to see any query or mutation activity and the docs (schema) never shows up. Usually I have to start developing in a new tab and it will all come back. Some members of my team have not been so lucky to get it back at all, and they've moved on to different solutions. Otherwise, there are minor issues that we didn't have with v2 such as: The docs will refresh each time the app does a render cycle. Aside from that, the new "Queries" tab doesn't prefill everything that query used like fragments and variables. I usually have to go copy paste the fragments from code, or edit the query from the network request. Bottom line: Whatever features you think you added are not worth it. Revert version 3 back to v2 while you fix these glaring issues.

Excellent. The easiest tool to test GraphQL endpoints, no setup is needed, it just works. Or it doesn't, it's quite buggy, the Apollo tab often doesn't show up in dev tools. But when it does, it's perfect

Extremely buggy. Had to uninstall and reinstall extension just to be able to get it to work at all, breaks after one use. Don't get me wrong, this extension has potential to be a great asset to developers, but until the numerous issues it has are fixed it is essentially worthless.

This is a review for the new update the apollo team has been working on where it seems like they threw out the old code base and started everything from scratch. Everything is working great now! Thanks for all your hard work, this is the most useful dev tool for me.

It was working, although a bit buggy, but since the update to 3.0 it stopped showing my cache altogether. plz fix

stopped working recently. no idea why

Actually love this 2021 update, seems like I no longer need altair plugin

Not at all a fan of latest update, not able to see any recent graphql call and also the variables are also not visible. Please go back to the old one, this new update sucks. Its better to use playground than this plugin. I'm a daily user and without the old version it just made my life hell. Please the developer behind the plugin please try to bring the old version where I can see all the network call and its variables.

Never connects. Useless basically.

stopped youtube from working correctly

breakes youtube and so buggy

The new update doesn't fill in the variables anymore and the mutations are totally broken

Some times it works, but recently this extension broke Youtube for me, so I need to disable it to load Youtube properly

I don't even leave reviews for things, but this plugin hardly works. It's great when it actually opens a tab in the dev tools, but it's pretty useless 90% of the time.

It has it's quirks, but overall an extremely useful extension

This is not working. Added the necessary configuration to have the window.__APOLLO_CLIENT__ object available, but the Apollo tab doesn't catch any queries or mutations.

Rarely works. Sometimes connects but then crashes. Sometimes connects then doesn't show any queries and shows an empty cache.

I wish to be able to use it, but it doesn't work when working in iframe embedded Apollo apps. https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client-devtools/issues/120 https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client-devtools/issues/216

I liked it but after upgrading to apollo client 3.2.9 and devtool 2.3.5, cache objects are displayed as flatten structure, there is no collapsible option/down arrow to the object to show less.

Doesn't appear to work for: React ^16.13.1 SilverStripe. ^4.0 Chrome version: Version 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Buggy and not reliable ! Cache updates are not reflected correctly! Lost hours debugging due to false data shown by this tool!

Could be useful, but NEVER works

Doesn't show up in the developers tools

Does not work

Installed but not avail in dev tools

Used to work and was great, but no longer shows up!

This Chrome extension is absolutely unusable! The idea is great but the implementation sucks. It super unstable and crashes all the time you try to do any debugging with it. Please fix this tool and make life easier for you customers, Apollo team!

Does not work at all. Tried everything even did a fresh install on Firefox. Was really looking forward to using this tool

Not Working

It doesn't work

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've spent the last hour just trying to make this work. Nothing useful shows in the Cache or Queries pages. Using apollo-client 2.6.10 and apollo-client-devtools 2.3.1. I also tried adding connectToDevTools: true, just to see if that made a difference. It's a great concept, but I can't seem to make it work :(

I would love it but that the extension connects to my site is pure luck. Most of the time i have to reload 5 times until it connects and thats pretty impractical. Would rise to 5 stars if that problem will get solved...

constantly cannot detect 'Apollo Client in your app!'

This is the worst debugger tool I've ever used. I was constantly running into bugs and the debugger was pausing despite never having set in breakpoints. Cache stopped updating in the web app. Took hours to figure out it was actually this extension and not the code itself. No visible errors thrown... broke the development process. Trash.

It used to be useful, now it doesn't work anymore

The tab in the devtools first shows a loading screen and then becomes blank

Like it when it works

Can't see queries / mutations / cache. Only thing that works is GraphiQL which isn't the most useful

I did not experience any issues. Super helpful extension!

This works great! Have had no issues. The recent updates must have fixed all the bugs :).

this tool doesn't even have the cache appear I thought the point of dev tools was to make life for the engineer easier with debugging...we need to monitor caching stats with real time analytics for our decentralized facebook project, this dev tool just isn't good enough...bye felicia

Very terrible experience of using it. Crashed, paused, cannot scroll sometimes, the tab disappears .... Had to keep using it since our environment is using Apollo. Please spend some time on this tool, Apollo. The idea is great but the product is very disappointing.

Not working at all, see the extension icon but nothing is working! do not download it!

Has great features but is extremely unreliable. Doesn't discover apollo half the time so it won't activate. UI is a little cluttered, but its a great start.

it does not work, no option showing developer tool tab

Overall great for reviewing calls made and testing in context. A few bugs when viewing cache.

Its a hit or mis, but usually miss. I hate this extension.

I like the idea ... but it doesn't work

Extremely buggy. Works about 20% of the time. Most of the time it doesn't even show up in devtools at all. When it works, it's nice.

Craps out everytime chrome updates. Awesome when working. Mostly doesn't

Stopped working now. Shows blank everytime.

Really wish this worked but it's full of bugs. Connecting to apollo client is very finicky.

It works, how do you rate this less than 5 stars?!

Is not really one star, but when you refresh the page the cache remains there but in reality is not. You can check it manually using `window.apollo = apollo`; where `apollo` is the injected dependency

This doesnt work with two apollo clients running at the same time. There should be a way to switch/select the client you want to use in the dev panel.

compared to redux dev tools, this has no system, I would be much more happier if I would see: - timeline (left side) - diff, or result from query (right side toggle) - cache (right side), when selected query, showing query after the mutation basically, redux dev tools are briliant tool, missing something like it for graphql

Just doesn't work, it doesn't report any error and the panel is just empty