Local Execution

You can use GraphQL Mesh Compose + Hive Gateway as a type-safe SDK in an existing TypeScript project, or execute operations programmatically without standing up an HTTP server.

The runnable example is Hive Gateway examples/typed-sdk (open in CodeSandbox ). It composes a supergraph with Mesh Compose, generates getSdk with GraphQL Codegen, and calls queries / mutations / subscriptions through createGatewayRuntime + runtime.sdkRequester.

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Mesh v0 .mesh contained two SDKs. Operation-style getMeshSDK() → this page + typed-sdk example . Resolver context.Source.Query.field → @graphql-mesh/incontext-sdk-codegen. Full v0 mapping: Type-safe SDKs.

Supergraph as a file

Compose to SDL (what the example uses) or to a JS module if you want to import the schema:


npx mesh-compose -o supergraph.graphql

mesh.config.ts


import { defineConfig } from '@graphql-mesh/compose-cli'
 
export const composeConfig = defineConfig({
  output: 'supergraph.js'
  /* ... */
})

In the example, package.json runs compose then Codegen:


{
  "scripts": {
    "codegen": "npm run compose && graphql-codegen",
    "compose": "mesh-compose -o supergraph.graphql"
  }
}

Executing queries programmatically

Use Hive Gateway’s executor against the composed supergraph (this replaces v0 .mesh execute):


import { parse } from 'graphql'
import { getExecutorForUnifiedGraph } from '@graphql-hive/gateway'
 
const executor = getExecutorForUnifiedGraph({
  getUnifiedGraph: () => import('./supergraph.js').then(m => m.default)
})
 
const exampleDocument = parse(/* GraphQL */ `
  query myQuery($someVar: String!) {
    foo(someArg: $someVar) {
      bar
    }
  }
`)
 
const result = await executor({
  document: exampleDocument,
  variables: { someVar: 'SOME_VALUE' }
})

Generating a fully type-safe SDK

v0 generated this inside .mesh. v1 uses the same Codegen plugin Mesh used internally (typescript-generic-sdk), with the supergraph as schema and your operations as documents.

codegen.ts


import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli'
 
export default {
  schema: './supergraph.graphql',
  documents: 'sdk/operations.graphql',
  generates: {
    'sdk/generated.ts': {
      plugins: ['typescript-operations', 'typescript-generic-sdk']
    }
  }
} satisfies CodegenConfig

With `createGatewayRuntime` (example)

This is what examples/typed-sdk/example.ts does: start an in-process gateway, pass runtime.sdkRequester into getSdk.


import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
import { createGatewayRuntime } from '@graphql-hive/gateway'
import { getSdk } from './sdk/generated'
 
await using runtime = createGatewayRuntime({
  supergraph: readFileSync('./supergraph.graphql', 'utf-8')
})
 
const sdk = getSdk(runtime.sdkRequester)
 
const todos = await sdk.Todos()
await sdk.AddTodo({ text: 'Write tests' })
 
const iterable = sdk.TodoAdded()
const iterator = iterable[Symbol.asyncIterator]()

Run the example locally (from its README): download example.tar.gz, npm i, npm run codegen, start the subgraph, compose, then npm run gateway — or run example.ts for the SDK path. Full steps: examples/typed-sdk README .

With `getSdkRequesterForUnifiedGraph`

If you already import a JS supergraph and do not need createGatewayRuntime:


import { getSdkRequesterForUnifiedGraph } from '@graphql-hive/gateway'
import { getSdk } from './sdk/generated'
 
const sdkRequester = getSdkRequesterForUnifiedGraph({
  getUnifiedGraph: () => import('./supergraph.js').then(m => m.default)
})
 
const sdk = getSdk(sdkRequester)
const result = await sdk.myQuery({ someVar: 'SOME_VALUE' })

In-context SDK (for `additionalResolvers`)

If you used v0 MeshContext inside resolvers (context.Wiki.Query.…), that is not getSdk. Generate types with @graphql-mesh/incontext-sdk-codegen from the supergraph. Mesh example: e2e/openapi-javascript-wiki.

codegen.ts


import type { CodegenConfig } from '@graphql-codegen/cli'
 
export default {
  schema: './supergraph.graphql',
  generates: {
    './types/incontext-sdk.ts': {
      plugins: ['@graphql-mesh/incontext-sdk-codegen']
    }
  }
} satisfies CodegenConfig

See In-context SDK.

Hive Gateway typed-sdk example In-context SDK (additionalResolvers)Migrate from Mesh v0 SDKs