Starlette: GraphQL support should be a third party application.

[tomchristie]

I'd like our graphql support to move out into being a third party package.

We should then document:

• The third party package it's been moved to.
• Links to ASGI implementations with ariadne, tartiflette, strawberry.

Questions:

• Which of Ariadne, Tartiflette & Strawberry currently have provide an ASGI application, that Starlette can mount?
• Are there any other GraphQL implementations I've missed here?
• Anyone keen to take on the GraphQL implementation as a third party package?

[tomchristie]

• Ariadne ASGI app: https://ariadnegraphql.org/docs/asgi
• Tatiflette: https://github.com/tartiflette/tartiflette-starlette

[dhirschfeld]

strawberry asgi app:

• https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/blob/master/docs/05_integrations/asgi.md

[euri10]

strawberry asgi app:

• https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/blob/master/docs/05_integrations/asgi.md

​@​strawberry​.​field forever : 💗 !

[JayH5]

Just commenting to add some updated links to libraries that can provide GraphQL support to Starlette applications. These will be in the Starlette documentation as well:

• Ariadne
• tartiflette-asgi
• Strawberry
• starlette-graphene3

[RoyTrudell]

strawberry asgi app:

• https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/blob/master/docs/05_integrations/asgi.md

​@​strawberry​.​field forever : 💗 !

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[patrick91]

strawberry asgi app:

• https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/blob/master/docs/05_integrations/asgi.md

​@​strawberry​.​field forever : 💗 !

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Updated link is here: https://strawberry.rocks/docs/integrations/asgi ☺️

[cglacet]

How easy would it be to replace the existing solution with any of the suggested alternatives? It looks like the current solution is quite strongly coupled to graphene, or am I wrong?

The idea would be to output the schema as plain text or json to a third party library?

I would gladly see even over-simplified example to appear in the documentation because its not clear to me how everything is interacting. For example I can see in strawberry's case that:

The GraphQL app accepts two options at the moment:

• schema: mandatory, the schema created by strawberry.Schema.

Seems like a problem since most people using starlette probably used graphene to generate their schema. I'm personally "stuck" with graphene as I used graphene-sqlalchemy, but maybe I missed a better option to interface my SQLAlchemy models with GraphQL.

I found an example in Ariadne's documentation: Starlette integration where they use the string version of the schema (aka type_defs). There is a discussion about this here.