Enable custom graphiql templates

[pauloteixeirajr]

Feature Request Type

• [ ] Core functionality
• [x] Alteration (enhancement/optimization) of existing feature(s)
• [ ] New behavior

Description

Can we allow custom graphiql templates? We're migrating to strawberry, but our team have a custom playground template which contains tabs and other site settings like schema polling, tracing and etc.

I was able to workaround it by creating a custom BaseView and overriding the _render_graphiql method, but it would be great to have a property for that. I just want to reduce the efforts should you ever update the render method.

Can I introduce a graphiql_template attribute to the BaseView?

class BaseView(View):
    ...
    graphiql_template = "graphql/graphiql.html"
    ...

    def _render_graphiql(self, request: HttpRequest, context=None):
       ...
       template = Template(render_to_string(self.graphiql_template))
       ...

Thanks for the awesome library, by the way :)

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[patrick91]

hi @pauloteixeirajr! good suggestion, I was thinking the same a couple of days ago, I want to merge this PR: https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1840 before adding this feature 😊 I'd love to have this option for all frameworks :)

btw I think you could technically already do this with django if you add strawberry django to the installed apps and use the same path for the template :)

[pauloteixeirajr]

@patrick91 that's great to hear! We did try changing the path, but because other projects also use the template from our internal library, it caused lots of issues for other teams, so we went with the custom view for now.

Like I said, we have a workaround for it, so there is no rush. I'm more than happy to help with PRs if you need 😄

[humphrey]

If this also allows me to easily have a separate url for subscriptions/websockets, then I'm all for it 👍