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GraphQL Foundation Library Updates

Adding descriptions to queries and fragments

The purpose of this discussion is to add necessary comments for various business use cases. As of now we have to parse SDL data and it's problematic when people add other comments. The WG is working on the best way to solve this issue.

Schema introspection extensions

First implemented by GraphQL Java,then some issues were found and it was discovered there was some additional work to be done before turning it into an RFC. The Working Group is planning to address these issues shortly.

Oneof Input Objects and Oneof Fields

Oneof Input Objects are a special variant of Input Objects where the type system asserts that exactly one of the fields must be set and non-null, all others being omitted. This is represented in introspection with the __Type.oneField: Boolean field, and in SDL via the @oneOf directive on the input object. The working group has agreed to Contribute syntax thoughts and on the RFC itself, and write an implementation in GraphQL.js

GraphQL Foundation Library Updates

TypeScript Migration Progress in graphql-js

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GraphQL Foundation Library Updates

Adding generics to DocumentNode and Source to allow TypeScript type inference

@dotansimha from The Guild had recently implemented an improved version of DocumentNode, called TypedDocumentNode, that allows type generics for result type and variable type and contributed it to graphql-js. This improved version allows TypeScript to infer the types automatically when an object that matches the signature is used.

TypeScript Migration Progress in graphql-js

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Official reference vscode-extension

vscode-graphql, which uses the official GraphQL Language Server, has now become the official reference vscode extension! Like GraphiQL, we will work to ensure all new spec language features are introduced here. After making the announcement we gained 30,000 new users! This blog post will tell you more about all the new features.

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