TypeScript React Apollo

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Installation

npm i -D @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo

pnpm add -D @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo

yarn add --dev @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo

bun add --dev @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo

This plugin generates React Apollo components and HOC with TypeScript typings.

It extends the basic TypeScript plugins: @graphql-codegen/typescript, @graphql-codegen/typescript-operations - and thus shares a similar configuration.

Config API Reference

withComponent

type: boolean default: false

Customize the output by enabling/disabling the generated Component (deprecated since Apollo-Client v3). For more details: https://apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/components

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withComponent: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

withHOC

type: boolean default: false

Customize the output by enabling/disabling the HOC (deprecated since Apollo-Client v3). For more details: https://apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/hoc

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withHOC: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

withHooks

type: boolean default: true

Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated React Hooks. For more details: https://apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/hooks

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withHooks: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

withMutationFn

type: boolean default: true

Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated mutation function signature.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withMutationFn: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

withRefetchFn

type: boolean default: false

Enable generating a function to be used with refetchQueries

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withRefetchFn: false
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

apolloReactCommonImportFrom

type: string default: @apollo/react-common

Customize the package where apollo-react common lib is loaded from.

apolloReactComponentsImportFrom

type: string default: @apollo/react-components

Customize the package where apollo-react component lib is loaded from.

apolloReactHocImportFrom

type: string default: @apollo/react-hoc

Customize the package where apollo-react HOC lib is loaded from.

apolloReactHooksImportFrom

type: string default: @apollo/react-hooks

Customize the package where apollo-react hooks lib is loaded from.

componentSuffix

type: string default: Component

You can specify a suffix that gets attached to the name of the generated component.

reactApolloVersion

type: number (values: 2, 3) default: 3

Sets the version of react-apollo. If you are using the old (deprecated) package of react-apollo, please set this configuration to 2. If you are using Apollo-Client v3, please set this to 3.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         reactApolloVersion: 2
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

withResultType

type: boolean default: true

Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated result type.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withResultType: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

withMutationOptionsType

type: boolean default: true

Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated mutation option type.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         withMutationOptionsType: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

addDocBlocks

type: boolean default: true

Allows you to enable/disable the generation of docblocks in generated code. Some IDE’s (like VSCode) add extra inline information with docblocks, you can disable this feature if your preferred IDE does not.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file.ts': {
       plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
       config: {
         addDocBlocks: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

defaultBaseOptions

type: object

hooksSuffix

type: string

noGraphQLTag

type: boolean default: false

Deprecated. Changes the documentMode to documentNode.

gqlImport

type: string default: graphql-tag#gql

Customize from which module will gql be imported from. This is useful if you want to use modules other than graphql-tag, e.g. graphql.macro.

Usage Examples

graphql.macro

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         gqlImport: 'graphql.macro#gql'
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

Gatsby

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         gqlImport: 'gatsby#graphql'
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

documentNodeImport

type: string default: graphql#DocumentNode

Customize from which module will DocumentNode be imported from. This is useful if you want to use modules other than graphql, e.g. @graphql-typed-document-node.

noExport

type: boolean default: false

Set this configuration to true if you wish to tell codegen to generate code with no export identifier.

dedupeOperationSuffix

type: boolean default: false

Set this configuration to true if you wish to make sure to remove duplicate operation name suffix.

omitOperationSuffix

type: boolean default: false

Set this configuration to true if you wish to disable auto add suffix of operation name, like Query, Mutation, Subscription, Fragment.

operationResultSuffix

type: string default: (empty)

Adds a suffix to generated operation result type names

documentVariablePrefix

type: string default: (empty)

Changes the GraphQL operations variables prefix.

documentVariableSuffix

type: string default: Document

Changes the GraphQL operations variables suffix.

fragmentVariablePrefix

type: string default: (empty)

Changes the GraphQL fragments variables prefix.

fragmentVariableSuffix

type: string default: FragmentDoc

Changes the GraphQL fragments variables suffix.

documentMode

type: DocumentMode default: graphQLTag

Declares how DocumentNode are created:

• graphQLTag: graphql-tag or other modules (check gqlImport) will be used to generate document nodes. If this is used, document nodes are generated on client side i.e. the module used to generate this will be shipped to the client
• documentNode: document nodes will be generated as objects when we generate the templates.
• documentNodeImportFragments: Similar to documentNode except it imports external fragments instead of embedding them.
• external: document nodes are imported from an external file. To be used with importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom

Note that some plugins (like typescript-graphql-request) also supports string for this parameter.

optimizeDocumentNode

type: boolean default: true

If you are using documentNode: documentMode | documentNodeImportFragments, you can set this to true to apply document optimizations for your GraphQL document. This will remove all “loc” and “description” fields from the compiled document, and will remove all empty arrays (such as directives, arguments and variableDefinitions).

importOperationTypesFrom

type: string default: (empty)

This config is used internally by presets, but you can use it manually to tell codegen to prefix all base types that it’s using. This is useful if you wish to generate base types from typescript-operations plugin into a different file, and import it from there.

importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom

type: string default: (empty)

This config should be used if documentMode is external. This has 2 usage:

• any string: This would be the path to import document nodes from. This can be used if we want to manually create the document nodes e.g. Use graphql-tag in a separate file and export the generated document

• ‘near-operation-file’: This is a special mode that is intended to be used with near-operation-file preset to import document nodes from those files. If these files are .graphql files, we make use of webpack loader.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         documentMode: 'external',
         importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom: 'path/to/document-node-file',
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         documentMode: 'external',
         importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom: 'near-operation-file',
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

pureMagicComment

type: boolean default: false

This config adds PURE magic comment to the static variables to enforce treeshaking for your bundler.

experimentalFragmentVariables

type: boolean default: false

If set to true, it will enable support for parsing variables on fragments.

strictScalars

type: boolean default: false

Makes scalars strict.

If scalars are found in the schema that are not defined in scalars an error will be thrown during codegen.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         strictScalars: true,
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

defaultScalarType

type: string default: any

Allows you to override the type that unknown scalars will have.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         defaultScalarType: 'unknown'
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

scalars

type: ScalarsMap

Extends or overrides the built-in scalars and custom GraphQL scalars to a custom type.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         scalars: {
           DateTime: 'Date',
           JSON: '{ [key: string]: any }',
         }
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

namingConvention

type: NamingConvention default: change-case-all#pascalCase

Allow you to override the naming convention of the output. You can either override all namings, or specify an object with specific custom naming convention per output. The format of the converter must be a valid module#method. Allowed values for specific output are: typeNames, enumValues. You can also use “keep” to keep all GraphQL names as-is. Additionally, you can set transformUnderscore to true if you want to override the default behavior, which is to preserve underscores.

Available case functions in change-case-all are camelCase, capitalCase, constantCase, dotCase, headerCase, noCase, paramCase, pascalCase, pathCase, sentenceCase, snakeCase, lowerCase, localeLowerCase, lowerCaseFirst, spongeCase, titleCase, upperCase, localeUpperCase and upperCaseFirst See more

Usage Examples

Override All Names

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         namingConvention: 'change-case-all#lowerCase',
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

Upper-case enum values

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         namingConvention: {
           typeNames: 'change-case-all#pascalCase',
           enumValues: 'change-case-all#upperCase',
         }
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

Keep names as is

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
        namingConvention: 'keep',
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

Remove Underscores

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         namingConvention: {
           typeNames: 'change-case-all#pascalCase',
           transformUnderscore: true
         }
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

typesPrefix

type: string default: (empty)

Prefixes all the generated types.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         typesPrefix: 'I',
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

typesSuffix

type: string default: (empty)

Suffixes all the generated types.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         typesSuffix: 'I',
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

skipTypename

type: boolean default: false

Does not add __typename to the generated types, unless it was specified in the selection set.

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         skipTypename: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

nonOptionalTypename

type: boolean default: false

Automatically adds __typename field to the generated types, even when they are not specified in the selection set, and makes it non-optional

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         nonOptionalTypename: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

useTypeImports

type: boolean default: false

Will use import type {} rather than import {} when importing only types. This gives compatibility with TypeScript’s “importsNotUsedAsValues”: “error” option

Usage Examples

 import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli';
 
 const config: CodegenConfig = {
   // ...
   generates: {
     'path/to/file': {
       // plugins...
       config: {
         useTypeImports: true
       },
     },
   },
 };
 export default config;

dedupeFragments

type: boolean default: false

Removes fragment duplicates for reducing data transfer. It is done by removing sub-fragments imports from fragment definition Instead - all of them are imported to the Operation node.

inlineFragmentTypes

type: string default: inline

Whether fragment types should be inlined into other operations. “inline” is the default behavior and will perform deep inlining fragment types within operation type definitions. “combine” is the previous behavior that uses fragment type references without inlining the types (and might cause issues with deeply nested fragment that uses list types).

emitLegacyCommonJSImports

type: boolean default: true

Emit legacy common js imports. Default it will be true this way it ensure that generated code works with non-compliant bundlers.

Usage Example

With React Hooks

For the given input:

query Test {
  feed {
    id
    commentCount
    repository {
      full_name
      html_url
      owner {
        avatar_url
      }
    }
  }
}

And the following configuration:

import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli'
 
const config: CodegenConfig = {
  schema: 'YOUR_SCHEMA_HERE',
  documents: './src/**/*.graphql',
  generates: {
    './generated-types.ts': {
      plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo']
    }
  }
}
export default config

Codegen will pre-compile the GraphQL operation into a DocumentNode object, and generate a ready-to-use React Hook for each operation you have.

In your application code, you can import it from the generated file, and use the React Hook in your component code:

import { useTest } from './generated-types'
 
export const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
  const { data, error, loading } = useTest()
 
  return <div>…</div>
}

Generate Data Component

Codegen also supports generating data Components (deprecated in @apollo/client v3), you can turn it on this way:

import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli'
 
const config: CodegenConfig = {
  schema: 'YOUR_SCHEMA_HERE',
  documents: './src/**/*.graphql',
  generates: {
    './generated-types.ts': {
      plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
      config: {
        withComponent: true
      }
    }
  }
}
export default config

Generate HOC

Codegen also supports generating High-Order-Components (deprecated in @apollo/client v3), you can turn it on this way:

import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli'
 
const config: CodegenConfig = {
  schema: 'YOUR_SCHEMA_HERE',
  documents: './src/**/*.graphql',
  generates: {
    './generated-types.ts': {
      plugins: ['typescript', 'typescript-operations', 'typescript-react-apollo'],
      config: {
        withHOC: true
      }
    }
  }
}
export default config