Getting GitHub GraphQL schema

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  • [00:00 - 00:13] Getting GitHub GraphQL schema. We've just written our first query, but we had to provide the types for it manually. In fact, type information is already available in the GraphQL schema, and we just need to extract it to use with TypeScript.

    [00:14 - 00:23] To extract the type information, we need to obtain the full GraphQL schema definition. The Apollo CLI allows to do this. Let's install it as a dev dependency. Yarn.

    [00:24 - 00:31] Add -dev Apollo. The request that we are going to make requires authentication, so we'll need to get the bearer token.

    [00:32 - 00:39] Lucky for us, we already have it because we made an authenticated request to retrieve the user data. Run the following command to get the authentication token.

    [00:40 - 00:46] It is just an old script, and you can copy it from the text version of this lesson. Run it in the console, and you should get your token.

    [00:47 - 00:51] Now run the next command. Run Yarn.run.Apollo. schema.download.

    [00:52 - 01:04] -hedra. And here you pass the token that you got on the previous step, instead of the token in the triangular brackets. Specify the endpoint and the file where you want to store your JSON schema.

    [01:05 - 01:09] Let's run this command. Loding the schema. And now it is stored in the JSON file.

    [01:10 - 01:14] You can find it in the GraphQL schema JSON in the root of your project.