Quick runthrough of gqlgen

Fiddling with gqlgen

Experimenting a bit with gqlgen for generating GraphQL code from spec.

Notes

• Would prefer to move gqlgen.yml and schema.graphql into a spec/ directory (or other areas)
• Installation method with tools.go - not sure about this, static binary is preferrable for my usages
• Generated models are pretty solid, similar to swagger
• Resolvers is nice, but what about partial updates?

I’m not entirely sold on this pattern. Feel like I’d prefer more flexibility with how the models and various components are defined. Almost interested in the idea of instead of using annotations like json or yaml, leveraging generated code for rendering the JSON/YAML components. Then isolating the various elements of what the system is expected to do, things like:

• Data Serialization
• Patch & Diff Pattern for Models (e.g. receive patch, apply patch to model)
• Hexagonal architecture

Maybe this is a case where Roslyn is a better fit for specialized code generation with a hexagonal architecture in-mind? More research needed into this.