vite-plugin-graphql-loader

A Vite plugin for loading GraphQL .gql and .graphql files, based on graphql-tag/loader

This package doesn't generate TypeScript definitions from the queries and fragments - see vite-plugin-graphql-codegen if you require this.

Install

yarn add -D vite-plugin-graphql-loader

or

npm i vite-plugin-graphql-loader --save-dev

Usage

In vite.config.ts or vite.config.js:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import graphqlLoader from "vite-plugin-graphql-loader";

export default defineConfig({
    plugins: [graphqlLoader()],
});

Now you can import queries from .gql or .graphql files.

example.graphql:

#import "./ExampleImport.graphql"

fragment ExampleFragment on example {
    id
    name
}

query ExampleQuery {
    example {
        ...ExampleFragment
        ...ExampleImport
    }
}

example.js:

import ExampleQuery, { ExampleFragment } from "./example.graphql";

If you have multiple queries in the same file, import them like this:

import { FirstQuery, SecondQuery } from "./example.graphql";

TypeScript

If you are using TypeScript, you will have to declare .gql or .graphql files.

Create graphql.d.ts anywhere in your source directory and

declare module "*.gql";
declare module "*.graphql";

Alternatively, change it to this (replacing .gql with .graphql depending on what you use):

declare module "*.gql" {
    const Query: import("graphql").DocumentNode;
    export default Query;
    export const _queries: Record<string, import("graphql").DocumentNode>;
    export const _fragments: Record<
        string,
        import("graphql").FragmentDefinitionNode
    >;
}

And then import fragments and queries like so in order to type them as DocumentNode and FragmentDefinitionNode objects.

import Document, { _queries, _fragments } from "./example.graphql";
console.log(Document); // Has type `DocumentNode`
console.log(_queries.ExampleQuery); // Has type `DocumentNode`
console.log(_fragments.ExampleFragment); // Has type `FragmentDefinitionNode`

Changelog

v4.0.1:

• Allow passing sourceMapOptions when initializing the plugin to configure how the source map is generated (see options here). noSourceMap can alternatively be used to disable source map generation. For example, to enable more detailed source maps:

import graphqlLoader from "vite-plugin-graphql-loader";
graphqlLoader({ sourceMapOptions: { hires: true } });

v4.0.0:

• Added source-map generation. Can by disabled by initializing with graphqlLoader({noSourceMap: true}).
• Refactored code generation to be more maintainable, added more test cases.
• Migrated from yarn to bun.

v3.0.1:

• Switched await import statements to top-level import statements (fixes #5 - Top-level await is not available error).
• Added _queries and _fragments for improved module declaration types.
• Updated snippets to be defined in TypeScript and then stringified.

v3.0.0:

• Moved from CJS to ESM, inline with Vite 5.0's CJS deprecation. If you are using CommonJS, continue using v2.0 of this package. If you have "type": "module", in your package.json then it should work as expected.