Explore a Finished API
Overview
If you already have a Hasura Cloud account, you can instantly check out a sample project's console here!
Navigating the world of APIs can often feel like an arduous journey fraught with obstacles. The process of sharing APIs for testing and consumption presents numerous challenges that can hinder you and your team's efficiency and productivity.
From setting up environments, to visualizing API structures, to monitoring and analyzing your API's efficiency, the difficulties faced by developers are non-trivial and can slow you down. Core issues include:
- Manual Setup: Developers manually configure API environments, leading to inconsistencies and errors.
- Lack of Visualization: Understanding the structure and relationships within an API is challenging without proper visualization tools.
- Limited Insights: Monitoring API performance and identifying bottlenecks requires integrating multiple tools, which can be cumbersome and disjointed.
Hasura solves this with an easy-to-use GUI called the console.
What is the console?
The console is a web-based GUI that allows you and your team to interact with, visualize, explore, and monitor your API. It can be used with your local development instance and with your hosted project.
The console makes it easy to test queries, provide feedback, explore iterations of your API, discover data, and diagnose bottlenecks or errors.
Explore an API
Step 1: Create an account or Login
Either create a new account or login to your existing account as https://console.hasura.io.
Step 2: Create a project or explore our sample project
You can follow our quickstart to create your own project on Hasura DDN. Or, if you want to easily see what Hasura can do, you can start exploring a finished API with ease.
To explore a sample eCommerce API built on Hasura DDN (source code), simply head to the DDN console. You should see an "eCommerce App" sample project under Sample Projects. Then, to get started with the console, head here to learn how to start using the explorer.