Setting Up GraphQL Code Generator
Learn how to install and run GraphQL Code Generator.
Adding GraphQL Code Generator to dependencies
The GraphQL Code Generator maintainers have provided us with a package that helps us get started quickly. This package is called graphql-codegen/cli. Let’s add the @graphql-codegen/cli package to our client application with the following command:
yarn add -D @graphql-codegen/cli
Alternatively, we can manually add the @graphql-codegen/cli
package to our package.json
file under devDependencies
:
"@graphql-codegen/cli": "2.3.0"
Running yarn install
inside the application’s directory will install this package.
Configuring GraphQL Code Generator
This @graphql-codegen/cli
package gives us a new command to use called graphql-codegen
. We will run it to set up the GraphQL Code Generator. We can run the following command ...