Is anybody generating TS types for their API layer...
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force
11/30/2018, 9:24 PMIs anybody generating TS types for their API layer to be consumed by their (typescript) frontend ?
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skainswo
11/30/2018, 9:33 PMi’ve been trying to do this but it’s non-trivial
skainswo
11/30/2018, 9:34 PMapollo (not prisma) has this codegen thing but it’s a bit hacky in my experience
skainswo
11/30/2018, 9:34 PMalso this issue has been a problem for us: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/4170
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force
12/01/2018, 5:06 AMInteresting. Thanks for the links. So what have you been doing instead? Just manually typing your frontend?
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skainswo
12/02/2018, 12:31 AMno great solution yet. i’ve considered taking a look at https://github.com/prisma/graphql-request
skainswo
12/02/2018, 12:32 AMimo there should really be a solution that just autogenerates an entire client library based on a schema file like gRPC does. that would automatically solve a lot of these problems
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force
12/02/2018, 4:20 PM@skainswo I actually got that working yesterday with https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-code-generator
force
12/02/2018, 4:20 PMusing the
typescript-servers
skainswo
12/03/2018, 5:14 AMdoes graphql-code-generator generate client bindings as well as server ones?
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