gatsby-plugin-typegen


TypeScript/Flow code generation for GatsbyJS queries.
Features
- Schema extraction
- Plugin documents extraction
- Generates type definitions for TypeScript & Flow, using graphql-codegen
- Auto-fixing
<StaticQuery>
and useStaticQuery()
in code with generated type name.
- Integrates GatsbyJS project with GraphQL & TypeScript ecosystem.
However, GatsbyJS provides builtin typegen feature since v4.15+. See discussion.
I strongly recommend to use the official feature instead of this plugin. If you would like to experiment with other typegen use cases with this plugin, please leave your idea!
Demo

Install
yarn add gatsby-plugin-typegen
How to use
plugins: [`gatsby-plugin-typegen`]
Example of type-safe usage
import type { PluginOptions as TypegenPluginOptions } from 'gatsby-plugin-typegen/types';
type Plugin = (
| string
| { resolve: string, options: object }
| { resolve: `gatsby-plugin-typegen`, options: TypegenPluginOptions }
);
const plugins: Plugin[] = [
{
resolve: `gatsby-plugin-typegen`,
options: {
},
},
];
module.exports = {
plugins,
};
Change the output path
{
options: {
outputPath: `src/__generated__/gatsby-types.d.ts`,
},
}
Switch to Flow
{
options: {
language: `flow`,
outputPath: `src/__generated__/gatsby-types.js.flow`,
},
}
Add generated typedefs to .flowconfig
:
[lib]
./node_modules/gatsby-plugin-typegen/types.js.flow
./src/__generated__/gatsby-types.js.flow
Emit schema as GraphQL SDL
{
options: {
emitSchema: {
'src/__generated__/gatsby-schema.graphql': true,
},
},
}

Visualized via GraphQL Voyager.
VSCode extension
You can use the VSCode GraphQL with a graphql-config file.
-
Install the VSCode GraphQL extension.
-
Configure plugin to emit schema and plugin documents.
module.exports = {
plugins: [
{
resolve: `gatsby-plugin-typegen`,
options: {
emitSchema: {
'src/__generated__/gatsby-introspection.json': true,
},
emitPluginDocument: {
'src/__generated__/gatsby-plugin-documents.graphql': true,
},
},
},
],
};
-
Create graphql.config.js
file in project root or supported graphql-configs.
module.exports = {
schema: ["src/__generated__/gatsby-introspection.json"],
documents: ["src/__generated__/gatsby-plugin-documents.graphql"],
extensions: {
endpoints: {
default: {
url: "http://localhost:8000/___graphql",
headers: { "user-agent": "JS GraphQL" },
introspect: false,
},
},
},
}
-
Reload VSCode, gatsby develop
to make queries in VSCode.

ESLint
You can use the extracted schema file for eslint-plugin-graphql!
module.exports = {
plugins: [
{
resolve: `gatsby-plugin-typegen`,
options: {
emitSchema: {
'src/__generated__/gatsby-introspection.json': true,
},
},
},
],
};
const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
'graphql'
],
rules: {
'graphql/template-strings': ['error', {
env: 'relay',
tagName: 'graphql',
schemaJsonFilepath: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/__generated__/gatsby-introspection.json'),
}],
},
};
TypeScript plugin
The extracted schema file can also be used for ts-graphql-plugin. Using the config defined in Emit schema as GraphQL SDL:
// tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
// ...
"plugins": [
{
"name": "ts-graphql-plugin",
"schema": "src/__generated__/gatsby-schema.graphql",
"tag": "graphql"
}
]
},
}

Available options
Checkout the full documentation of plugin options from src/types.ts
.
Disclaimer
This plugin is a bit opinionated about how integrate GatsbyJS and GCG. You cannot customize plugins and its options because this plugin is built for ONLY GatsbyJS queries.
If you wanna use codegen with other plugins (e.g. React Apollo), you can use @graphql-codegen/cli
for it.
Changelog
v3.1.0
- Added Gatsby v5 to the
peerDependencies
range.
- Deprecated
commentDescriptions
option in emitSchema
in favor of GraphQL.js v16.
v3.0.0
- Added support for
GatsbyImageData
scalar. (See gatsbyjs/gatsby#35683)
- [BREAKING CHANGE] nullable fields are typed as
T | null
, instead of T | undefined
(which was inaccurate).
- The output is now stable, no more dev-only fields, no more randomly-sorted definitions.
autoFix
option is renamed to autofix
. Previous option will be removed in v4.
emitPluginDocuments
option is renamed to emitPluginDocument
. Previous option will be removed in v4.
- Fixed bunch of bugs (#138).
- Introduced a very predictable & debuggable scheduler built on top of XState.
v2.2.4
- Fix misconfigured codegen options (#$81)
v2.2.3
- Allow React v17 as peer dependency (#140)
v2.2.2
- Fix missing options (#$81)
v2.2.1
- Fixes bug caused by upstream behavior change (#93)
v2.2.0
- Use union types instead of enum values (#78)
- Emit schema when add a new frontmatter field (#82)
v2.1.0
- Use
string
type for the GatsbyJS's Date
scalar by default. (#73)
- Allow to add type mappings for custom scalars. (#73)
- Avoid using unstable API internally (#71, original issue: #54)
v2.0.1
- Fix multiple query definitions in plugin documents on Windows (#66, original issue: #44)
v2.0.0
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Generated types are now using global declaration with a namespace (default is
GatsbyTypes
).
- Fixed an issue where the insert types function only worked when documents were changed. (#43)
v1.1.2
- Export inline fragment subtypes. (#45)
- Insert eslint-disable comment on top of generated file. (#37)
Contributors โจ
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
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Acknowledgements