dotansimha / dotansimha/graphql-code-generator
Performance optimizations: caching
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Description
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
GraphQL Codegen is amazingly powerful, but performance can be lacklustre at times. This issue is to open a conversation about what could be done to improve performance.
### Describe the solution you'd like
There are a number of optimizations that could be put in place when ran in watch mode; I'm not sure which of these are already implemented?
- Files that have been parsed can be cached, and only re-parsed when the file watcher indicates they have changed
- Detected GraphQL documents in a TypeScript file can be cached, and logic put in place such that when a file changes if the GraphQL within it has not changed then there's no action necessary for that file
- Parsing of extracted GraphQL documents can be cached
- Parsing of the GraphQL schema can be cached
- Validation can be cached
- Type generation itself could be cached so that only types related to the changed document(s) need to be regenerated
- A comparison could be performed on the output versus the previous output so that files are only written if doing so would result in a concrete change, reducing overhead for TypeScript
Ultimately, it would be wonderful if adding a field to a GraphQL query in a large codebase could result in the generated code being output in under one second (ideally faster).
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