Problem

GraphQL can be somewhat verbose and annoying. Additionally requires lots of tooling to write well in an IDE. Instead let’s think of how we want to interact with our data, and then generate the graphql query automatically.

Resource first definitions

const gql = new GQLEndpoint('<https://mysite.com/gql>');

SchemaGen

Resource → GraphQL Schema → Backend types

Query examples

Nested arguments are supplemented with gql-custom schemas that inherit from base.

We might need to specify ‘… on Repository’ - not sure if this is not always the case

gql.query(
    (v: { login: string }) => `query getByPinned($login: String!) {
    user(login: $login) {
      pinnedItems(first: 6, types: REPOSITORY) {
        nodes {
          ... on Repository {
            name
            owner { login }
            id
            description
            createdAt
            stargazerCount
            isFork
            forkCount
            isPrivate
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }`,
    {
	    user: {
		    pinnedItems: { nodes: [GqlRepository] },
			}
		},
  )

gql.query(
	`getByPinned($login: String!)`,
	{
		user: {
			pinnedItems: new schema.Object(
				{ nodes: [GqlRepository.join('owner')] },
				 `pinnedItems(first: 6, types: REPOSITORY)`
			)
		}
	},
);

`
query {
  getItems {
    id
    name
    price
    currency
  }
}
`

gql.query(
	`getItems`,
	{ getItems: new schema.Collection([Item]) },
);

TODO: Check that mutation with user(user: $user) rather than updateUser(user: $user) is valid and works

export const UserResource = {
  get: gql.query(
    `query GetUser($id: ID!) {
    user(id: $id) {
      id
      name
      username
      email
      phone
      website
    }
  }
`,
    { user: User },
  ),
  update: gql.mutation(
    `mutation updateUser($user: User!) {
      user(user: $user) {
        id
        name
        username
        email
        phone
        website
    }
  }`,
    { updateUser: User },
  ),
};

export const UserResource = {
  get: gql.query(`getUser($id: ID!)`, { user: User }),
  update: gql.mutation(`updateUser($user: User!)`, { user: user }),
};

UserResource.update({ id: 'myid', username: 'bob' });

const UserResource = createResource({
	schema: Todo,
	methods: ['get', 'update'],
});