[Feature] support graphql-config

[benbender]

Hey,

just thought it would be nice if houdini would support Graphql-config to get the endpoint and, possibly, to configure the path where the schema is pulled to. What do you think?

[AlecAivazis]

I think its an interesting idea but I'm a bit wary to introduce/encourage yet another config file, especially one that seems to only work with CommonJS. Is there a specific tool you would like to integrate with?

[benbender]

For me it's the single-source of truth for my graphql-config. Mainly because its natively supported in vscode-graphql.

In which way is it bound to CommonJS? Afaik they are using esbuild and the config itself can be in a variety of formats.

[AlecAivazis]

re CommonJS, i just didn't see an esm file in their example but I might have missed it. I'm definitely in favor of adding support as long as we can easily embed the necessary scalar config and the rest of the houdini specifics

[jycouet]

Graphql-config file plays well with Houdini. You can configure a .graphqlrc.yaml with something like:

projects:
  default:
    schema:
      - ./schema.graphql
      - ./$houdini/graphql/schema.graphql
    documents:
      - **/*.gql
      - ./$houdini/graphql/documents.gql

And vscode plugin will take is as usual.

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@benbender, you would like houdini.config.js to be inside .graphqlrc.yaml with the extension mechanism? I'm not sure any "main" config could be taken from Graphql-config, so everything would be in the extension. I understand the wish to have everything graphql in one place. I just would like a confirmation that this is still a need?

[AlecAivazis]

I'm going to close this since its gone very stale. If this is still important to someone, please let me know and I'll gladly reopen the ticket