Recodegen

Faster GraphQL codegen for TypeScript projects

Installation

Binary

• you can download binaries from Releases page

NPM

Globally via NPM

• npm install -g @graphql-recodegen/cli
• to run recodegen -config=recodegen.json

Locally via NPM

• npm install --save-dev @graphql-recodegen/cli
• to run ./node_modules/.bin/recodegen -config=recodegen.json

Build from Source

• git clone [email protected]:poul-kg/recodegen.git
• cd recodegen
• cd cmd/recodegen
• go build - you'll see a binary file created
• go install - to install recodegen and be able to run it from any directory. For this to work make sure your PATH contains output from go env GOPATH command

Usage

• ./recodegen - reads recodegen.json and tries to generate types
• ./recodegen -config=codegen.json - can specify custom JSON file

Configuration

• the idea was to re-use existing Apollo @graphql-codegen/cli JSON config format
• plugins: ['typescript'] - will generate schema types
• plugins: ['typescript-operations'] - will generate operations
• only two plugins supported: plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations']
• you can't use documents: like documents: "dir/*.ts" it should be documents: ["dir/*.ts"]
• basically two config examples you see below are the only supported options for now, everything else will be ignored or will throw an error

Config 1 - separate files for generated schema and operations

The following config will:

• read GraphQL schema from schema/backend.graphql file
• generate generated/schema.generated.ts file with all schema types
• scan all *.ts files in ./backend directory and try to extract GraphQL queries, which should be defined as

 // backend/my-service.ts
 const query = gql`
   query findUser($id: uuid!) {
     first_name
     last_name
   }
 `;

• Writes operations into generated/operations.ts
• operations.ts will import schema types like import * as Types from "./schema.generated";

recodegen.json

{
  "overwrite": true,
  "schema": "schema/backend.graphql",
  "generates": {
    "generated/schema.generated.ts": {
      "plugins": [
        "typescript"
      ]
    },
    "generated/operations.ts": {
      "preset": "import-types",
      "presetConfig": {
        "typesPath": "./schema.generated"
      },
      "plugins": [
        "typescript-operations"
      ],
      "documents": ["backend/**/*.ts"]
    }
  }
}

Config 2 - single file for generated schema and operations

recodegen.json

{
  "overwrite": true,
  "schema": "schema/backend.graphql",
  "generates": {
    "generated/schema.generated.ts": {
      "plugins": [
        "typescript", "typescript-operations"
      ],
      "documents": ["backend/**/*.ts"]
    }
  }
}

• ./recodegen - to build schema file and operations file

Known Issues

• some output is not properly formatted
• types in the generated output may change order on every new generation
• generated files are overwritten even if there is no change
• No Interface support
• No Union support
• no unit tests
• GraphQL fragment support is limited but something is supported
• some type names might differ a bit from what is generated by @graphql-codegen/cli
• it's pretty raw right now, was done pretty quickly to avoid constant disappointment with slow codegen