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pact-js
JS version of Pact. Pact is a contract testing framework for HTTP APIs and non-HTTP asynchronous messaging systems.
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Enter Vendr’s elm-gql . This one is specifically built for the full-stack workflow mentioned above. I’m building a UI with types, and I expect the API to deliver those to me. There’s no need to convert anything because the UI is driving the development here, and the API is there to serve that.
It just just enough abstraction over the basics of converting your HTTP calls to GraphQL queries and mutations, but ALL of the parsing of responses is on you. I’m well versed in parsing JSON in Elm. I’m also familiar with the compiler errors as well as runtime errors you get with JSON that doesn’t match up to what you designed. At some point I’ll probably have to move beyond the unit tests and add contact tests, maybe via Pact.js.
Once I could quickly make calls against a server, and see the raw responses were matching up to my expectations, I moved to finding an Elm equivalent. Two years ago or so, Dillon had his GraphQL library and marketed it well.