The Biggest Change To GraphQL Codegen in 10 Years
summary
GraphQL Codegen ships a client-focused redesign: client plugins V6 that generate only types actually used by each operation, cutting unused output dramatically — one real project sees 95% less generated code. A clear migration path replaces deprecated Apollo tooling with output that is 99.98% similar at Yelp, fixes concurrency issues in large monorepos, introduces 14 notable breaking changes, moves packages to ESM-first, and upstreams the custom patches used to achieve this.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and agenda
- 2:13History and evolution
- 4:20Past design issues
- 11:04Client plugins redesign
- 17:50Migrating from Apollo
- 21:23Open source collaboration
- 25:49Future goals and Q&A
