Apollo Fragment React Codegen

This package contains a plugin for GraphQL Code Generator that allows to generate React hooks with corresponding TypeScript types based on useApolloFragment from apollo-fragment-react and GraphQL fragments defined in your app.

Setup

This package requires TypeScript React Apollo plugin to be installed and setup to generate fragment documents and types.

First, install the package:

yarn add -D apollo-fragment-react-codegen

Then register the plugin in GraphQL Code Generator config (codegen.yml by default):

generates:
path/to/file.ts:
 plugins:
   - typescript
   - typescript-operations
   - typescript-react-apollo
   - apollo-fragment-react-codegen
 config:
   withHooks: true

Now, whenever you run your codegen script, it will also generate React hooks based on existing fragment definitions which you then can use in your code instead of useApolloFragment.

Usage

Suppose you have some existing code to read user name and avatar from Apollo Client cache using useApolloFragment:

// UserAvatar.tsx
import gql from 'graphql-tag'
import { useApolloFragment } from 'apollo-fragment-react'
import { User } from 'src/generated.ts'

const userAvatarAndNameFragment = gql`
    fragment userAvatarAndNameFragment on User {
        name
        avatarUrl
    }
`

type FragmentData = Pick<User, 'name' | 'avatarUrl'>

export function UserAvatar(userId: string) {
    const { data: userData } = useApolloFragment<FragmentData>(userId)

    if (!userData) {
        return null
    }

    return <img src={userData.avatarUrl} alt={`${userData.name} avatar`} />
}

To leverage GraphQL codegen, let's move the fragment definiton into a .graphql file:

# fragments.graphql

fragment userAvatarAndName on User {
    name
    avatarUrl
}

and make sure that we include this file in the codegen configuration:

documents:
  - "src/**/*.graphql"
  # OR
  # - "src/**/fragments.graphql"

Now, when we run the codegen script, the generated file should also include something like this:

export function useUserAvatarAndNameFragment(id: string) {
  return useApolloFragment<UserAvatarAndNameFragment>(
    UserAvatarAndNameFragmentDoc,
    id
  )
}
export type UserAvatarAndNameFragmentHookResult = ReturnType<
  typeof useUserAvatarAndNameFragment
>

Next we can update our UserAvatar component:

// UserAvatar.tsx
import { useUserAvatarAndNameFragment } from 'src/generated.ts'

export function UserAvatar(userId: string) {
    const { data: userData } = useUserAvatarAndNameFragment(userId)

    if (!userData) {
        return null
    }

    return <img src={userData.avatarUrl} alt={`${userData.name} avatar`} />
}

useUserAvatarAndNameFragment is just a wrapper around useApolloFragment which reduce the amount of boilerplate and also properly types the return value.