GraphQL playground keeps breaking on my mac. Is it stable? Also I seem to not be able to simply query by ID I appear to be doing it correctly however it keeps returning value is undefined. I am definitely using a query variable like as it is needed.

you're mixing up two problems here. for the playground problem, could you please report a new issue here: https://github.com/graphcool/graphql-playground for your query question, please ask it in a new thread here: https://www.graph.cool/forum/c/questions thanks! 🙂