Make consuming graphql-js easier with leveraged flow support

[kastermester]

Hello,

Looking at the entire code base for graphql I see that it uses flow everywhere, which is quite nice :)

However when I am consuming the library, there's no way for me to leverage all of this type goodness. I have taken a stab at writing up a library definitions file, but that feels kinda icky to me as well, and besides I have quite a few issues getting them to work.

It would be really cool if there was a way to publish the package in a way where people using flow could use the types written inside the code base. I am aware of the project that tries to embed the types into comments, but I am not entirely sure how far along that project is in making it actually work with such a sizeable code base.

Are there any plans, or anyone with a better idea of how to export the flow types in this package to other users? An officially maintained library would of course work for me as well, but my guess would be that that could get out of hand to maintain quite fast.

[leebyron]

Yes, this is something we want to do! There are still a few issues with flow's treatment of type definitions when deployed to npm, but once those are fixed we will include flow definitions with this package.

I'll keep this task open to track progress.

[kastermester]

With the recent changes to flow 0.19, where it will treat files with .flow extension as more important than those without with regards to importing types, should it not be possible to do this in a "dumb" way, by simply leaving the original source files with the added extension?

[kastermester]

Do you have any comments regarding my suggestion @leebyron? If you think it is the right approach I would be happy to provide a PR to do this.

[leebyron]

I'm not sure actually, I'll consult the flow team on their desired best practices

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[loganlinn]

@leebyron Any updates on this? From what I can see, the .flow route seems to be the suggested solution facebook/flow#910 facebook/flow#593

[samwgoldman]

Lee, you can always walk over to my desk if you have a question!

[iamchenxin]

@samwgoldman Is facebook use .flow for grapgql internally now ?
I found something strange.
When i use babel-preset-fbjs to convert src/ to flow, there are some strange results. Like :
with config

fbjsConfigurePreset({
  autoImport: false,
  target: 'flow',
})

will get some result like :
src

export type GraphQLScalarTypeConfig<InternalType> = {
  name: string;
  description?: ?string;
  serialize: (value: mixed) => ?InternalType;
  parseValue?: (value: mixed) => ?InternalType;
  parseLiteral?: (valueAST: Value) => ?InternalType;
}

=> result

export type GraphQLScalarTypeConfig<InternalType> = {
  name: string;
  description?: ?string;
  serialize(value: mixed): ?InternalType;
  parseValue?(value: mixed): ?InternalType;           // wrong convert 
  parseLiteral?(valueAST: Value): ?InternalType;    // wrong convert 
};

According to fbjs/commit/7baf1f i should use the plugins included in preset-fbjs to avoid babel's bug. Did i do some incorrect config for fbjsConfigurePreset?

: Now im temporarily directly rename all src file to .js.flow . Seems temporarily work well for awhile.

[iamchenxin]

@samwgoldman oh, i got some idea. 'graphql' did not use provides-module module-map, so it is bug free. Do not need babel to convert js to js.flow. Just need rename all src. Am i right?

[iamchenxin]

@samwgoldman @kastermester I made a solution (flow-dynamic ) for this . See pr:89 i push to Graphql-relay(detail codes) to resolve flow type casting between Packages.
this pr:89 is a demonstration for Linking graphql's Flow Type with another packages,resolve type conflict will be easy,no more need to worry about how to make them 100% static resolved.

[itajaja]

any progress on this?

[stubailo]

Since this issue was filed, GraphQL.js 0.8 came out which exports Flow types. Perhaps the issue can be closed?

[leebyron]

Yep, latest version has flow types!

[itajaja]

that's cool, thanks for closing this 🎉