Hasty Treat - Effortless Custom GraphQL with GraphQL Codegen

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about GraphQL tooling, and specifically a couple tools we use that will change your experience with GraphQL.

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Show Notes

03:38 - What is it?

• https://graphql-code-generator.com/
• Code generation for GraphQL APIs

04:34 - What can it do?

• Generate React hooks for any of the major player Apollo client (urql)
• Types for the full stack — resolvers, mutations

07:49 - How we use it

• Generate a schema file to keep client and server in sync in mono repo
• Creates all React Hooks
• Generates all types for both resolvers, and anything client-side

Links

• React Query
• Apollo
• Typescript
• Cypress
• https://periqles.herokuapp.com/
• https://the-guild.dev/
• Swagger

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