apollo-tooling VS graphql-code-generator

Apollo is deprecating their tooling, best to go with GraphQL Code Generator.

Alternatively, you can use Apollo GraphQL or any dependency of your choice to make API request.

When you talk about GraphQL, one simply cannot forget GraphQL Tools irrespective of the architecture or stack you use. Initially developed by Apollo and then taken over by The Guild, GraphQL Tools provides you a very powerful set of utility functions to work with GraphQL which you can use in your services irrespective of whethere you are using something like Apollo Federation or Schema Stitching.

The Apollo CLI when combined with Federation does come with a lot of helpers to take care of things like pushing the schema, listing the services in the studio, doing codegen and so on though I am not currently sure why they are rewriting it again to Rust apart from the reasons as suggested here.

ApolloGraphql: https://apollographql.com

The tech stack I used for this site was: Prisma w/ GraphQL-Yoga / Apollo & GraphQL / Express / NextJS / MongoDB

This is great, thanks. I'm wondering if you still need to explicitly reference types, such as with Apollo's codegen where you would do something like useQuery or is it fully automatic like in the gif in the article?

https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling#apollo-clientcodegen-output

The @graphql-codegen library is a bridge between your GraphQL schema and the actual code you write. It automates the generation of boilerplate code, ensuring that your data fetching layer is always up to date with your content structure.

In typescript and typescript-resolvers plugin v4.0.1, we have reverted the default ID Scalar input type to string. Read the pull request for more details.

See https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-code-generator with @graphql-codegen/typescript-graphql-request plugin

Graphql Codegen is a code generation library for GraphQL that enables developers to generate custom code. It provides us developers with the ability to generate type definitions, query builders, documentation, and more by analyzing our GraphQL schemas. This makes it easier and faster to build GraphQL applications and reduces the time spent coding.

It is already incoming, with an example in the repository. 😇 https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-code-generator/pull/8863

The actual package is @ graphql-codegen/cli

GraphQL Codegen generates frontend types and React hooks from our GraphQL request definitions.

There are two main approaches to keeping the types of the GraphQL schema and entities in business logic in sync. You can generate the schema based on your TypeScript code (e.g. TypeGraphQL), or you can generate types based on your schema (e.g. GraphQL Code Generator). We opted for the latter since it slotted right into our existing GraphQL server implementation using Apollo Server.

For querying in React make sure you use GraphQL code generator https://www.the-guild.dev/graphql/codegen