The Frontend Treadmill

Re:The Frontend Treadmill by mplanchard on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:54PM (#43428093)

I appreciate this! It is the codegen part, but because it’s in a repo that mostly is just getting bugfixes until we eventually subsume it all with something newer, it’s hard to justify the time spent to migrate to a different tool. The issue I was having with pnpm was that it wouldn’t install the apollo CLI tool due to its having set a required node version that is now quite old in its package.json.

I was hoping the graphql codegen options would be more similar, but after about an hour of trying to figure out how to get it to generate approximately the same output I gave up.

I’ve worked around it for now by using `pnpm dlx` to use the old apollo CLI without having it as part of the actual package dependencies.

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Re:The Frontend Treadmill by jdauriemma on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:00PM (#43428167)

That's a start! Forgive me, I'm heading into a meeting but I want to share some resources with you. It's close to the end of my day so I'll check back in the morning. If you prefer to continue the conversation on another platform, I'm happy to exchange emails or Discord handles. Also consider posting at community[.]apollographql[.]com, the Apollo Client team tries its best to respond to everyone who asks for help there. Any code snippets would be helpful to illustrate observed vs. ideal state when migrating.

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Re:The Frontend Treadmill by jdauriemma on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:32PM (#43439393)

Okay thanks for your patience. I put together this gist based on an interaction we had with a user last year, I hope it's helpful: https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/457f9ac42f29d0bb6c4eb742ad...

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