This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It’s very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data in templates.
But what if you didn’t have to write the query at all? What if you just wrote the templates pretending you already had the data, and the query built itself? I haven’t even tried this project yet but it feels like how things should be.
Reminds me of how Perch CMS doesn’t ask you to model data up front. You build page templates, and the CMS creates data entry pages based on the data you need in the template.
Yep, I’ve tried it and it’s great. I can’t wait for its stable release. It’s still lacking a lot of basic features like mutations but when it’s implemented everyone starting a new client GraphQL project will use gqless. I can’t imagine someone still sticking to projects like Apollo Client.