@apollo-elements/create

Scaffold apps and components with GraphQL and Lit

Usage no npm install needed!

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README

@apollo-elements/create

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⚡️ App and Component Generator for Apollo Elements 🚀

🔎 Read the Full API Docs 🔎

To quickly get started with apollo-elements, generate a skeleton app with this command

npm init @apollo-elements

Which will prompt you to generate a full app, or a component thereof.

App Generator

npm init @apollo-elements -- app

Generate an Apollo Elements Skeleton App

Example

npm init @apollo-elements -- \
  app \
    --pkg-manager yarn \
    --uri '/graphql' \
    --install \
    --start \
    --overwrite

Options

Flag Description type default
--help Show help boolean
--version Show version number boolean
--pkg-manager Preferred package manager npm or yarn npm
--uri, -u URI to your GraphQL endpoint string
--overwrite Overwrite existing files boolean
--package-defaults Use default package.json fields (e.g. author, license) boolean
--codegen Run codegen after scaffolding files boolean true
--install, -i Automatically install dependencies boolean
--start, -s Launch the dev server after scaffolding boolean

🔋 Batteries Included

The generated app comes with plenty of bells-and-whistles:

  • TypeScript
  • Linting with eslint and an opinionated ruleset
  • Buildless development workflow with @web/dev-server
  • Minified production bundle
  • A basic Apollo Client instance
  • Simple, unopinionated SPA routing
  • Code-generated TypeScript typings for GraphQL documents
  • import MyQuery from './My.query.graphql'
  • import styles from './my-element.css'

🛎 Scripts

These npm scripts help you get your work done in style:

npm start
yarn start

runs the code generator and the development server in watch mode

npm run build
yarn build

bundles the app into /build. The build will bundle and minify your javascript, and minify your HTML. Just upload to your static file host and you're good.

npm run lint
yarn lint

Lint your app with an opinionated set of rules for JavaScript and TypeScript

npm test
yarn test

The generator currently doesn't offer strong opinions on testing your UI components, so npm test currently exist with an error code. For unit testing business logic (i.e. typePolicies), we recommend @web/test-runner

Component Generator

npm init @apollo-elements -- component

Generate an Apollo Element

Example

npm init @apollo-elements -- \
  component \
    --type mutation \
    --name x-user-profile \
    --subdir user \
    --schema-path '#schema' \
    --shared-css-path '#components/shared.css' \
    --variables '$input: UpdateProfileInput!' \
    --fields 'updateProfile(input: $input) { id }' \
    --no-codegen
    --overwrite

Options

Flag Description type default
--help Show help boolean
--version Show version number boolean
--pkg-manager Preferred package manager npm or yarn npm
--type, -t Element type query, mutation, or subscription query
--name, -n Custom element tag name string
--subdir, -d Optional subdir under src/components string
--overwrite Overwrite existing files boolean false
--codegen Run codegen after scaffolding files boolean true
--schema-path Optional custom path to schema types file string
--shared-css-path Optional custom path to shared component styles file string
--variables Optional custom variables e.g. input: $UpdateUserInput string
--fields Optional custom fields e.g. id name picture { alt url } string