graphql-code-generator VS WhatsApp-Clone-Client-React

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

This tutorial was written using Tortilla — the Tutorial framework.

Client — urigo/WhatsApp-Clone-Client-React

When I was writing the WhatsApp-Clone I used a different approach to overcome the problems mentioned above. Instead of creating a dedicated component for each styled element, I used a container that has all the CSS rules with private classes. By private classes I mean, classes which start with an underscore (e.g. _my-class). This way I’m less likely to collide globally defined CSS rules:

If you want to see graphql-code-generator in action, you can look at the awesome WhatsApp-Clone-Client-React project made by The Guild. Here is the diff (thanks to Eytan Manor) showcasing the generated hooks applied to a real codebase.