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https://github.com/prismake/typegql

Create GraphQL schema with TypeScript classes.
https://github.com/prismake/typegql

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Create GraphQL schema with TypeScript classes.

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### What is `typegql`?

![demo](assets/demo.gif)

typegql is set of decorators allowing creating GraphQL APIs quickly and in type-safe way.

* [Documentation](https://prismake.github.io/typegql/)

### Examples:

* [Basic Express example](examples/basic-express-server)
* [Typeorm integration example](examples/typeorm-basic-integration)
* [Forward resolution - eg. query only needed db fields](examples/forward-resolution)
* [Nested mutations or queries](examples/nested-mutation-or-query)
* [Custom decorators / Higher order decorators](examples/custom-decorators)
* [Serverless eg. AWS Lambda](examples/serverless)
* [Merge schemas](examples/merge-schemas)

## Basic example

Example below is able to resolve such query

```graphql
query {
hello(name: "Bob") # will resolve to 'Hello, Bob!'
}
```

```typescript
import { compileSchema, SchemaRoot, Query } from 'typegql';

@SchemaRoot()
class SuperSchema {
@Query()
hello(name: string): string {
return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}
}

const compiledSchema = compileSchema({ roots: [SuperSchema] });
```

`compiledSchema` is regular executable schema compatible with `graphql-js` library.

To use it with `express`, you'd have to simply:

```typescript
import * as express from 'express';
import * as graphqlHTTP from 'express-graphql';

const app = express();

app.use(
'/graphql',
graphqlHTTP({
schema: compiledSchema,
graphiql: true,
}),
);
app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Graphql API ready on http://localhost:3000/graphql'));
```

## Adding nested types

For now, our query field returned scalar (string). Let's return something more complex. Schema will look like:

```graphql
mutation {
createProduct(name: "Chair", price: 99.99) {
name
price
isExpensive
}
}
```

Such query will have a bit more code and here it is:

```typescript
import { Schema, Query, ObjectType, Field, Mutation, compileSchema } from 'typegql';

@ObjectType({ description: 'Simple product object type' })
class Product {
@Field() name: string;

@Field() price: number;

@Field()
isExpensive() {
return this.price > 50;
}
}

@Schema()
class SuperSchema {
@Mutation()
createProduct(name: string, price: number): Product {
const product = new Product();
product.name = name;
product.price = price;
return product;
}
}

const compiledSchema = compileSchema(SuperSchema);
```

## Forcing field type.

Until now, `typegql` was able to guess type of every field from typescript type definitions.

There are, however, some cases where we'd have to define them explicitly.

* We want to strictly tell if field is nullable or not
* We want to be explicit about if some `number` type is `Float` or `Int` (`GraphQLFloat` or `GraphQLInt`) etc
* Function we use returns type of `Promise` while field itself is typed as `SomeType`
* List (Array) type is used. (For now, typescript `Reflect` api is not able to guess type of single array item. This might change in the future)

Let's modify our `Product` so it has additional `categories` field that will return array of strings. For sake of readibility, I'll ommit all fields we've defined previously.

```typescript
@ObjectType()
class Product {
@Field({ type: [String] }) // note we can use any native type like GraphQLString!
categories(): string[] {
return ['Tables', 'Furniture'];
}
}
```

We've added `{ type: [String] }` as `@Field` options. Type can be anything that is resolvable to `GraphQL` type

* Native JS scalars: `String`, `Number`, `Boolean`.
* Any type that is already compiled to `graphql` eg. `GraphQLFloat` or any type from external graphql library etc
* Every class decorated with `@ObjectType`
* One element array of any of above for list types eg. `[String]` or `[GraphQLFloat]`

## Writing Asynchronously

Every field function we write can be `async` and return `Promise`. Let's say, instead of hard-coding our categories, we want to fetch it from some external API:

```typescript
@ObjectType()
class Product {
@Field({ type: [String] }) // note we can use any native type like GraphQLString!
async categories(): Promise {
const categories = await api.fetchCategories();
return categories.map(cat => cat.name);
}
}
```

## Before `1.0.0`

Before version `1.0.0` consider APIs of `typegql` to be subject to change. We encourage you to try this library out and provide us feedback so we can polish it to be as usable and efficent as possible.