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How to resolve import for the .graphql file with typescript and webpack

Mohsen ZareZardeyni on July 10, 2019

Hi, I’m Mohsen ZareZardeyni, and I’m a software engineer at Sigma Telecom LLC. At Sigma, for developing our back office application, we decided to...
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Lewis Llobera •

What advantages has using .graphql extension?

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Michael Monerau •

Taken from the docs:

It comes with a loader easy to setup and with some benefits:

  1. Do not process GraphQL ASTs on client-side
  2. Enable queries to be separated from logic
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Pavel Ravits •

This link is about wepback with client

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Michael Monerau •

Ah right, didn't pay attention since I use it client-side. So only second point might apply in a server environment.

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Akshay Kadam (A2K) Open GraphQL •

Hey, nice tutorial. FYI, your first 2 gists should be interchanged. tsconfig.json should be first & graphql.d.ts should be second :)

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Mohsen ZareZardeyni Open GraphQL •

Thanks:)

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Michael Monerau •

Thanks, clear & concise!

Also had to add "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true to my tsconfig.json.

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Keon •

Thanks for the tutorial, this helped me import graphql files to use with apollo server :)

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Md Kawsar Islam Yeasin •

Do you have any idea how to config swcrc?

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romhayh •

I tried it, and it worked, but in vscode i do not get the benefit of auto import of the gql files. When i try to use the query file, i have no auto complete for it.