Tronql

Documentation for the api
Run graphql query
Run graphql query

Inspiration

Graphql is one the newest standart of the api. It is faster, use less bandwidth, better for clients. We decide to provide that for Tron as well.

What it does

Project allow to use graphql technology to query tron api. Graphql was developed by Facebook, is heavily used by many api providers(gitlab, netflix, etc) Advantages of the graphql vs rest

You can select only that data that you need You can make several queries in one response, so it will be faster if you need a lot of queries You can use subscriptions(this is websockets) for data In many js libraries you can have more strict types, and compiler will show error if types does not match So in general graphql allows you to reduce latency, bandwidth, speed of the requests and have more strict types. It is microservice ready, I can add a lot of microservices and they will have only one endpoint. All data could be queried using that endpoint.

How we built it

We build it with apollo router, fastapi, tron full node and kafka.

Challenges we ran into

Run custom node for tron.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finally we did it,

What we learned

A little bit of java, learnt tron node api, a lot of things that are related to cryptocurrency and tron in particular.

What's next for Tronql

A lot of different plans.

run ecosystem from tron mainnet(currently for nile testnet)
Support more queries and mutation from tron node api
support webhooks/subscriptions in graphql
adding ability to subscribe to particular address and get webhook notifications. That can be usefull for online shops
added stats for using api. Allow to add api key for users, make some plans (free and paid) for api users.