graphql-tag VS web-mode

In Apollo Server 3, you could import the gql template literal tag directly from the apollo-server library. This template literal tag is provided by the graphql-tag library and allows parsing a GraphQL query string to an AST that can be used by Apollo and other GraphQL libraries.

Handles parsing, some validation, normalizing and some sort of caching from what I can tell https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-tag/blob/main/src/index.ts

A common use of this feature is compilation of graphql queries, which looks like this.

indentation in Relay.QL Relay and gql, graphql GraphQL template literals

By template strings I mean this (use of Javascript template literals in Apollo). We had a large SpringBoot REST API. Frontend added an Apollo server that simply called our backend and crammed it into a graphql response (ignoring all the work we did for pagination and caching). Later backend inherited this codebase and was forced to maintain it. Both teams spent many man hours on this endeavor with unclear tangible benefits.

This features is so powerful that some awesome libraries were built on it such as Styled Components and graphql-tag.

web-mode: https://web-mode.org/

Did you try web-mode? https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode/ It's the mode that made me accept HTML. There are shortcuts to: delete a node, wrap a node with another one, delete an attribute, copy a node, re-indent the buffer, go to the beginning/end of the node…

I’ve started to use emacs in my computer sciences school 30 years ago (EPITA in Paris). The Lab was surrounded by Mips, Sun, Alpha, … great time.

The only weakness of Emacs (according to me) was the lack of a good major mode (module) to edit web template : imagine editing a php block inside a javascript part embedded inside html.

After testing many modes, I started to develop web-mode (http://web-mode.org) that is now compatible with about thirty template engines. What a wondeful trip it was to discover the power of Lisp and what a pleasure it is everyday to know exactly what happens when I hit a key while editing an html file.

I am the only Emacs user in my company (kernix.com) but nothing would make me switch. I can not imagine using an editor that would not open in less than a second (or that would eat hundreds of Mo of RAM)

I Hope Emacs will see a usage surge with the inclusion of tree sitter… editing in emacs will be even faster and more robust. Not sure tree sitter is suitted for multi languages files … but for this you have web-mode ;)

web-mode should be used for .erb files, per their docs

Web Mode has support for razor pages. I used it briefly and it seems to be good. Here are the relevant parts of my config:

web-mode for editing templates

Been using web-mode recently and possess noticed that marked regions are unmarked once the cursor is moved. I use expand-region normally to mark HTML tags and then tried to move up one line and the marked region is cancelled. Using C-SPC to mark regions does not face this issue. Anyone face this issue and solve it? I know there was a similar issue with multiple cursors but ‏‏‎ that was solvable by editing a custom variable found here. Any suggestions are welcomed as I do not even know where to begin to debug this issue. Thanks!