Mercurius PostGraphile

A Fastify plugin for integrating PostGraphile schemas with Mercurius

Contents

• Usage
• API
• Run the Example
• Resources

Usage

npm i @autotelic/mercurius-postgraphile

const mercuriusPostGraphile = require('@autotelic/mercurius-postgraphile')
const { Pool } = require('pg')
const connectionString = process.env.DATABASE_URL
const pgPool = new Pool({ connectionString })

module.exports = async function (fastify, options) {
  fastify.register(mercuriusPostGraphile, {
    connectionString,
    pgPool
  })
}

API

Options

Name	Status	Type	Default	Description
connectionString	Required	String	-	A postgreSQL database connection string, i.e. postgres://postgres:[email protected]:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable.
pgPool	Required	Object	-	A client or pool instance that will be passed to the pg library and used to connect to a PostgreSQL backend.
instanceName	Optional	String	public	A string which specifies the PostgreSQL schema that PostGraphile will use to create a GraphQL schema.
localStitchOpts	Optional	Object	{}	An object containing local subschema config options.
postGraphileStitchOpts	Optional	Object	{}	An object containing PostGraphile subschema config options. stitchOpts for both the local and PostGraphile schemas implement the SubschemaConfig interface. Documention can be found here
postGraphileContextOpts	Optional	Object/Function	{}	An object or callback function containing withPostGraphileContext options, outlined here
postGraphileSchemaOpts	Optional	Object	{}	An object containing createPostGraphileSchema options, outlined here

Run the Example

Install Dependencies and Run a Local Postgres Container

npm i
docker-compose up -d

Run the server

npm run example

Make Requests to the Server

http :3000/graphql
http POST :3000/graphql

Explore Graphiql

http://localhost:3000/graphiql

The user query from PostGraphile and the localUser query from Mercurius are used to merge the User type. Check out the example to explore the stitch options implemented in merging the local and PostGraphile schemas.

query {
  user(id: 1) {
    username
    verified
  }
  localUser(id: 1) {
    username
    verified
  }
}

Resources

• Schema-Only PostGraphile
• Schema Stitching