Simple-Gql

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
  • Plain request with JavaScript
  • Using graphql-tag and TypeScript
  • Creating a re-useable client with TypeScript
• Error handling
• API
  • gqlFetch
  • Options
• License

Lightweight GraphQL request/client aimed at usage in the browser. Can also be used in Node by providing your own implementation of fetch.

Built to be used for minimal use cases or with any Promise based data-fetching abstraction such as react-query.

Features

• Light and treeshakeable. No dependencies.
• Written in TypeScript.
• Functional API.
• Supports plain string queries or ASTNodes from graphql-tag.

Installation

# npm 
npm install simple-gql
 
# yarn 
yarn add simple-gql

Usage

Plain request with JavaScript

import { gqlFetch } from 'simple-gql'
 
const query = `
  query getBook($title: String!) {
    Book(title: $title) {
      publishDate
      author {
        name
      }
    }
  }
`
 
const response = await gqlFetch({
  url: 'https://book-api/graphql',
  query,
  variables: { title: 'Example Title' },
})

Using graphql-tag and TypeScript

import { gqlFetch } from 'simple-gql'
import gql from 'graphql-tag'
 
interface QueryVaraibles {
  title: string
}
interface QueryData {
  Book: {
    publishDate: number
    author: {
      name: string
    }
  }
}
 
const query = gql`
  query getBook($title: String!) {
    Book(title: $title) {
      publishDate
      author {
        name
      }
    }
  }
`
 
const response = await gqlFetch<QueryData, QueryVariables>({
  url: 'https://book-api/graphql',
  query,
  variables: { title: 'Example Title' },
})

Creating a re-useable client with TypeScript

We can create a reusable client with some function composition and closures. See the example below for a TypeScript example.

import { gqlFetch } from 'simple-gql'
import { ASTNode } from 'graphql'
 
export const gqlRequest = async <T, V>(
  query: string | ASTNode,
  variables: V,
) => {
  // Perform any pre-request logic you need here.
  const accessToken = myTokenLogic()
 
  const response = await gqlFetch<T, V>({
    query,
    variables,
    url: 'https://your-endpoint.com/graphql',
    options: {
      // Your default options.
      headers: {
        Authorization: `token ${accessToken}`,
      },
    },
  })
 
  return response
}

Error handling

This library will make no attempt to handle your errors and leaves it up to the developer to handle them. It will throw any error it receives, just like a fetch request would.

API

gqlFetch

Make a plain GraphQL request.

const gqlFetch: <T>({ url: string, query: string | ASTNode, variables?: object, options?: Options, }) => Promise<T>

Accepts an object as a parameter with the following keys:

• url: The endpoint to request.
• query: GraphQL query as a string or ASTNode returned from graphql-tag.
• variables: GraphQL variable object to inject into your query.
• options: Options. See options for all available options.

Returns a Promise.

Options

gqlFetch takes an options object that accepts the same options a normal fetch would accept in addition to the following:

• fetch: Fetch implementation to utilize. Defaults to window.fetch. Use this if you plan to use this package in Node.

If you need to send your GraphQL request via GET, just set the appropriate headers.method option. gqlFetch will handle setting your query and variables as querystring parameters.

License

MIT.