# GraphQL Contributors are welcome Help wanted

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

# Feature

Currently, @tsed/graphql allows you to configure a GraphQL server in your project. This package uses apollo-server-express to create GraphQL server and type-graphql for the decorators.

# Installation

To begin, install the GraphQL module for TS.ED:

npm install --save @tsed/graphql
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Type-graphql requires to update your tsconfig.json by adding extra options as following:

{
  "target": "es2016",
  "lib": ["es2016", "esnext.asynciterable"],
  "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true
}
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Now, we can configure the Ts.ED server by importing @tsed/graphql in your Server:

import {Configuration} from "@tsed/common";
import "@tsed/platform-express";

@Configuration({
  componentsScan: [
    "${rootDir}/graphql/**/*.ts" // add this pattern to scan resolvers or datasources
  ],
  graphql: {
    "server1": {
      // GraphQL server configuration
    }
  }
})
export class Server {
}
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# GraphQlService

GraphQlService lets you to retrieve an instance of ApolloServer.

import {AfterRoutesInit, Service} from "@tsed/common";
import {GraphQLService} from "@tsed/graphql";
import {ApolloServer} from "apollo-server-express";

@Service()
export class UsersService implements AfterRoutesInit {
  private server: ApolloServer;

  constructor(private graphQLService: GraphQLService) {

  }

  $afterRoutesInit() {
    this.server = this.graphQLService.get("server1")!;
  }
}
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For more information about ApolloServer, look at its documentation here;

# Type-graphql

# Types

We want to get the equivalent of this type described in SDL:

type Recipe {
  id: ID!
  title: String!
  description: String
  creationDate: Date!
  ingredients: [String!]!
}
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So we create the Recipe class with all properties and types:

class Recipe {
  id: string;
  title: string;
  description?: string;
  creationDate: Date;
  ingredients: string[];
}
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Then we decorate the class and its properties with decorators:

import {Field, ID, ObjectType} from "type-graphql";

@ObjectType()
export class Recipe {
  @Field(type => ID)
  id: string;

  @Field()
  title: string;

  @Field({nullable: true})
  description?: string;

  @Field()
  creationDate: Date;

  @Field(type => [String])
  ingredients: string[];
}
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The detailed rules for when to use nullable, array and others are described in fields and types docs.

# Resolvers

After that we want to create typical crud queries and mutation. To do that we create the resolver (controller) class that will have injected RecipeService in the constructor:

import {ResolverService} from "@tsed/graphql";
import {Arg, Args, Query} from "type-graphql";
import {RecipeNotFoundError} from "../errors/RecipeNotFoundError";
import {RecipeService} from "../services/RecipeService";
import {Recipe} from "../types/Recipe";

@ResolverService(Recipe)
export class RecipeResolver {
  constructor(private recipeService: RecipeService) {
  }

  @Query(returns => Recipe)
  async recipe(@Arg("id") id: string) {
    const recipe = await this.recipeService.findById(id);
    if (recipe === undefined) {
      throw new RecipeNotFoundError(id);
    }

    return recipe;
  }

  @Query(returns => [Recipe])
  recipes(@Args() {skip, take}: RecipesArgs) {
    return this.recipeService.findAll({skip, take});
  }
}
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# Data Source

Data source is one of the Apollo server features which can be used as option for your Resolver or Query. Ts.ED provides a decorator to declare a DataSource which will be injected to the Apollo server context.

import {DataSourceService} from "@tsed/graphql";
import {RESTDataSource} from "apollo-datasource-rest";
import {User} from "../models/User";

@DataSourceService()
export class UserDataSource extends RESTDataSource {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.baseURL = "https://myapi.com/api/users";
  }

  getUserById(id: string): Promise<User> {
    return this.get(`/${id}`);
  }
}
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Then you can retrieve your data source through the context in your resolver like that:

import {ResolverService} from "@tsed/graphql";
import {Arg, Authorized, Ctx, Query} from "type-graphql";
import {UserDataSource} from "../datasources/UserDataSource";
import {User} from "../models/User";

@ResolverService(User)
export class UserResolver {
  @Authorized()
  @Query(() => User)
  public async user(
    @Arg("userId") userId: string,
    @Ctx("dataSources") dataSources: any
  ): Promise<User> {
    const userDataSource: UserDataSource = dataSources.userDataSource;

    return userDataSource.getUserById(userId);
  }
}
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