How to handle cross-cutting/shared concerns in Federation (Summit 7/2020)

[jhampton]

Context

In the Federation topic room, we discussed the desire to establish strong patterns around shared concerns:

• Value Types (non-entities)
• Scalars
• Enums

Experience

We have shared experience here that could help others:

• Using shared libraries
• Using "layers" of schema or a non-planable set of schema
• What can you share about your experience?

Make this an "Impossible State"

• What could we see in Federation that would reduce the risk of this shared concern?
• Are there extensions to Federation that could help?

[smyrick]

@jhampton It looks like this repo has access to the Github Discussions Beta.

Should we move this over there? https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-server/discussions