graphql js stuff in final bundle

Steps to reproduce

I’m trying “@urql/svelte”: “0.1.3” and it works great!

Expected behavior

I’m also using babel-plugin-graphql-tag and it work if I remove urql (using let’s say Apollo with the same queries).

Actual behavior

If I just add initClient() in my App.svelte the final bundle contains graphql js too in it (42 KB!).

How to fix it?

[kitten]

Yes, the difference is mostly that Apollo now enforced the usage of graphql-tag. They even export the gql tag themselves.

But urql also supports just passing in the query trying directly (which is actually used really frequently) without graphql-tag

So that means we always include parse from graphql.

Afaik though, a caveat here is that the Babel plugin is nice to speed up parsing time. That’s not really an issue though because it always only happens once. Eventually though the plugin doesn’t save you any size anymore as with multiple queries over time the size of the parsed GraphQL Query AST overtakes the size of the tagged / string variants

[JoviDeCroock]

The main part why these are still included is because we don’t enforce the usage of graphql-tag as you can see here https://github.com/FormidableLabs/urql/blob/master/packages/core/src/utils/request.ts#L21

This won’t bee tree-shaken out since it’s a runtime process