Sunday, 30 December 2018

GraphQL: How nested to make schema?

This past year I converted an application to use Graphql. Its been great so far, during the conversion I essentially ported all my services that backed my REST endpoints to back grapqhl queries and mutations. The app is working well but would like to continue to evolve my object graph.

Lets consider I have the following relationships.

User -> Team -> Boards -> Lists -> Cards -> Comments

I currently have two different nested schema: User -> team:

    type User {
  id: ID!
  email: String!
  role: String!
  name: String!
  resetPasswordToken: String
  team: Team!
  lastActiveAt: Date
}

type Team {
  id: ID!
  inviteToken: String!
  owner: String!
  name: String!
  archived: Boolean!
  members: [String]
}

Then I have Boards -> Lists -> Cards -> Comments

type Board {
  id: ID!
  name: String!
  teamId: String!
  lists: [List]
  createdAt: Date
  updatedAt: Date
}

type List {
  id: ID!
  name: String!
  order: Int!
  description: String
  backgroundColor: String
  cardColor: String
  archived: Boolean
  boardId: String!
  ownerId: String!
  teamId: String!
  cards: [Card]
}

type Card {
  id: ID!
  text: String!
  order: Int
  groupCards: [Card]
  type: String
  backgroundColor: String
  votes: [String]
  boardId: String
  listId: String
  ownerId: String
  teamId: String!
  comments: [Comment]
  createdAt: Date
  updatedAt: Date
}

type Comment {
  id: ID!
  text: String!
  archived: Boolean
  boardId: String!
  ownerId: String
  teamId: String!
  cardId: String!
  createdAt: Date
  updatedAt: Date
}

Which works great. But I'm curious how nested I can truly make my schema. If I added the rest to make the graph complete:

type Team {
      id: ID!
      inviteToken: String!
      owner: String!
      name: String!
      archived: Boolean!
      members: [String]
      **boards: [Board]**
    }

This would achieve a much much deeper graph. However I worried how much complicated mutations would be. Specifically for the board schema downwards I need to publish subscription updates for all actions. Which if I add a comment, publish the entire board update is incredibly inefficient. While built a subscription logic for each create/update of every nested schema seems like a ton of code to achieve something simple.

Any thoughts on what the right depth is in object graphs? With keeping in mind the every object beside a user needs to be broadcast to multiple users.

Thanks



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