Webpack’ing GraphQL Documents

In order to Webpack the GraphQL Documents inside our apps, is there any step that could be done in ember-apollo-client? Or should all configuration be placed into each app config? Could we provide a how-to into the Wiki?

/cc @dfreeman

[dfreeman]

The Webpack loader itself does very little — it’s basically just some glue between Webpack and graphql-tag, plus a bit of handling for #import lines.

We can easily do the same thing in Broccoli without introducing the overhead of the extra Webpack bundling step. (Incidentally, the tests on that branch appear to pass…)

[dfreeman]

I think the Ember-conventional approach would be to skip Webpack entirely and register a preprocessor with the CLI that does something similar.

With that approach I think we could pretty easily get the #import directives working by translating them to ES6 imports and then letting the built-in bundler handle the rest. It should even Just Work with importing things from addons, which would be nice if you had a something like a shared core schema.

I’ll see if I can build out a proof of concept sometime in the next few days or over the weekend to verify this would actually work 😃