Add relay-config library

[robertf224]

Adding (or rather reviving) a relay-config library for loading/saving Relay configs. Will port babel-plugin-relay to use this but hitting "module not found" errors in tests.

[captbaritone]

Would love a more complete understanding of what problem(s) we're trying to solve here.

Here's what I'm inferring: The babel plugin currently needs to be able to see the Relay config file in order to apply the correct transformation. This requires:

1. Locating the same config file that the compiler finds
2. Parsing the config file in the same way the compiler does
3. Validate the config file in the same way the compiler does
4. Being able to have type-safe interactions with reading the config file once it's been validated

Am I correct in inferring that this is the set of problems we are trying to solve here?

[captbaritone]

I'm hesitant to bring in this dependency for a set of things that look like pretty thin wrappers around node apis. Do you think it could be avoided? What's the cost of not including it?

[robertf224]

using it for validating the loaded config against the json schema so we would otherwise need some dependency for doing that (e.g. ajv which this library uses under the hood). also this dep should only be used in dev tools not anything at runtime

[captbaritone]

Do we actually use this to generate typescript types, or just for json-schema runtime validation?

[robertf224]

using in a gulp task in the build to automatically generate from the schema file so we don't need to manually keep the two in sync

[robertf224]

@captbaritone yeah that's about right. For context I'm working on a nice integration layer right now between Relay and Next.js, but the same idea would apply to any tools building on top of Relay. The two places I'm using loadConfig are:

• To automatically populate the Relay component of the Next.js config (which sets up the SWC transform)
• I'm providing a pull-schema cli command that loads environment variables using @next/env, executes an introspection query using your Relay environment, and saves the schema to the path specified in the schema field of your Relay config

Providing a type-safe/standard library for loading Relay's config file will avoid bugs/hacks in tools building on top of Relay, e.g. see this cli that just hardcodes relay.config.json and then does a bunch of non-type-safe loading and manipulation on top

I will also port the Babel plugin to use this library in a follow-up!

[robertf224]

not sure if this should be in here