Banana Cake Pop17.0.0

Banana Cake Pop lets developers connect to GraphQL servers and work with their APIs from an integrated development environment on MacOS. It brings a GraphQL IDE together with a telemetry dashboard, a schema and client registry, and a Fusion query-plan viewer. Developers can use these views to inspect API contracts, registered clients, service traces, and the way federated requests are assembled.

For .NET development, Banana Cake Pop works with the open-source Hot Chocolate, Fusion, Strawberry Shake, and Mocha projects, along with the Nitro control plane. Fusion composes separately owned service contracts into one API, checks for missing lookups and incompatible fields before execution, and creates the gateway artifact used by the runtime. Applications, tools, and agents can query that gateway through GraphQL, while services and integrations can use gRPC, OpenAPI, or MCP from the same API model.

The telemetry dashboard ranks reported GraphQL operations by impact and lets teams inspect traces from services exporting supported OpenTelemetry data; the documented .NET setup includes REST, gRPC, and background jobs. Developers can also use reviewed, checked-in skills with Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini, or Cline, though generated results still depend on the model, prompt, and human review. It suits developers building monolithic or federated APIs, client applications, message-heavy services, and systems whose work spans multiple backend teams.

Version 17.0.0 is freeware for Apple Silicon (arm64) Macs and belongs to the Developer Tools category.