Strawberry Meeting #4

[patrick91]

Core dev attendees: @patrick91 @BryceBeagle @marcoacierno, @la4de
Date & time: 2021-05-04 4:30pm (GMT)

🎯 Agenda

• Updates from last meeting
• AOB

🗒 Notes

Thanks for everyone that joined, it's nice to see more people and getting more feedback from the community <3

Internal refactoring

@BryceBeagle is doing amazing work in making our internal API much neater and stable, here's his latest PR: #906

This is going to make the library more stable and it will also allow easier programmatic generation of GraphQL types.

Default resolvers

#842

We had a quick discussion on the above PR, @la4de closed it for now as he found a different way to achieve the same goal. We might discuss this feature again in future if needed :)

Proposal for django support API

strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django#20

Another from @la4de, this is an update on how we integrate with 3rd party libraries, our Pydantic integration looks something like this:

@strawberry.experimental.pydantic.type(model=User, fields=[
    'id',
    'name',
    'friends'
])
class User:
    pass

with @la4de's proposal it will change to:

@strawberry.experimental.pydantic.type(model=User)
class User:
    id: auto
    name: auto
    friends: auto

which is cleaner to read :) feel free to have a look at the issue, which is for django, but it will apply to pydantic as well :)

Versioning

We also briefly discussed versioning and we definitely need a deprecation plan, we can take inspiration from django.
Something I think might be nice to have is to deprecate only one thing per (major?) release. This should make it easy for users to update strawberry. We'll probably open a discussion about this in future :)

Usage of strawberry

Looks like our usage is slowly increasing, which is very nice to see, hopefully we can grow even more in the next months

https://pypistats.org/packages/strawberry-graphql

🤹‍♀️ Actions

• ⚠️ @patrick91 to finalise website structure and update meta issue on docs and do a tweet
• @patrick91 to think about roadmap for v1
• @patrick91 to make an issue for partial types
• @patrick91 to make an issue for allowing returning dicts from resolvers
• @patrick91 PR grooming

From last time

• @patrick91 to fix action that send comments with the docs link when adding ok-to-preview label on PRs by non-core dev
• @patrick91 to check if directives are working 100% (and rename them to StrawberryDirective)
• @patrick91 to write docs for directives strawberry.rocks/docs/types/directives