graphile/graphile-build

Name: graphile-build

Owner: Graphile

Description: Build a high-performance easily-extensible GraphQL schema by combining plugins

Created: 2017-06-22 07:36:53.0

Updated: 2018-02-21 22:38:15.0

Pushed: 2018-02-21 23:36:28.0

Homepage: https://www.graphile.org/

Size: 1329

Language: JavaScript

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Build a high-performance easily-extensible GraphQL schema by combining plugins.

NOTE: you might actually be looking for PostGraphile (previously 'PostGraphQL') which can be found here; the schema building tools in this repository are used to power PostGraphile among other things.

This repository is a monorepo (managed by lerna) which comprises the following packages:

graphile-build: The core package: a simple plugin system that enables you to build a GraphQL schema out of plugins

graphile-build-pg: A selection of plugins related to PostgreSQL: schema introspection, generation of fields and types for all tables, computed columns, query procedures, etc - if there's certain features you don't want, simply don't use that plugin! (Surfacing plugin dependencies has not been built yet, so be careful when you disable a plugin.)

postgraphile-core: Intended to be used by [PostGraphile][] in order to provide its schema functionality (excluding HTTP handling, etc)

graphql-parse-resolve-info: Parses a GraphQLResolveInfo object into a tree of the fields that are being requested to enable optimisations to your GraphQL schema (e.g. we use it to determine which fields are required from the SQL database)

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This system grew out of a need for more efficient SQL queries, easier extensibility and customisation in PostGraphQL. I'm extremely grateful to Caleb Meredith for the stellar work he put into PostGraphQL, and to the community who helped me come up with this idea.

Development
install -g lerna yarn

a bootstrap
run watch

Watch will keep monitoring and compiling the babel files. Then to run the tests in another terminal:

a run test

If the above succeeds, you're good to go! If not, please reach out on twitter: @benjie.

Working with docker

If you want to work in a docker environment you can follow the instructions on the wiki.

GraphQL conflict

If you get an error like the below:

GraphQL conflict for 'GraphQLObjectType' detected! Multiple versions of graphql exist in your node_modules?

it means the peerDependencies have been installed locally in each package which is not what we want (we want them installed in the root node_modules.

To solve this, we need to re-bootstrap:

Rf packages/*/node_modules

a bootstrap

This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.