anyone created notification systems on top of thei...
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zebapy
04/11/2018, 3:16 PManyone created notification systems on top of their graphql api? How do you implement it? Do you fire a
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nilan
04/11/2018, 4:58 PMwhat kind of notification system are you talking about?
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lawjolla
04/11/2018, 5:00 PMI've been giving some thought to this. Generically, it should probably be implemented in a schema directive. No matter which way you cut it, there will be a lot of code, but that's probably the best way to manage it.
lawjolla
04/11/2018, 5:01 PMIf you want to get queasy, here's how much logic Slack uses to decide if it should send you a notification. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6A7smLUsAAzJeS.jpg:large
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zebapy
04/12/2018, 3:23 PMBuilding basic notifications for my users e.g. someone comments on their profile, they get notified
zebapy
04/12/2018, 3:25 PMSchema directive approach sounds interesting. I haven’t used directives much but if they act like middleware, that sounds like it works?
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lawjolla
04/12/2018, 3:29 PMNo one has really used them... they're brand new. 🙂 But yes, they're like middleware. https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graphql-tools/schema-directives.html
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zebapy
04/12/2018, 3:32 PMcan you use these on mutations though?
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lawjolla
04/12/2018, 3:37 PMI haven't read the docs
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zebapy
04/12/2018, 3:43 PMthis might be easier https://github.com/alekbarszczewski/graphql-add-middleware
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lawjolla
04/12/2018, 3:58 PMApollo drives the standards, so I would go with that. But up to you
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matic
04/12/2018, 4:44 PMyou might be interested in this as well - we’ll be releasing it in no time and some feedback would be more than welcome https://github.com/graphcool/graphql-middleware/blob/rewrite/README.md
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lawjolla
04/12/2018, 5:04 PM@matic wow! How do you see it integrating with the graph tools schema directives? EDIT: Oh, you answer that in the readme 🙈
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