Feature: @live and @defer

[faisalhasnain]

I see it's mentioned in the roadmap, any plans about how it's coming along in future?

[yorrd]

very interesting to us too, not sure what has happened since January 2018 in this direction. We're ready to switch as soon as we have live data support without polling

[literalpie]

this should help:

we definitely want to support those directives [@LiVe, @defer, @stream] as part of this work. In fact, the 3.0 roadmap is inspired by our first spike on defer last year which helped us to find the gaps in execution and transport configuration that the 3.0 looks to solve

[literalpie]

Based on the latest roadmap, it seems like defer and stream are planned for “after 3”

[itsezc]

@literalpie Don't see no @live mentioned on the roadmap anymore, is it still planned?

[jessecravens]

curious as well .. can you just provide a simple update , so folks have a basic understanding of future plans.

[jakesylvestre]

@itsezc it's still in the roadmap. Last part of this page.

[itsezc]

@jakesyl just reviewed it again but @live looks to be removed.

[dmitry]

Any page with a description what is @live about?

[jakesylvestre]

@itsezc huh - looks that way.

@dmitry - https://youtu.be/ViXL0YQnioU?t=1090 this is from react europe, I've skipped to the part where they show @live

[johnculviner]

Please please please consider keeping going on this....

This solves one of my biggest gripes with GQL - your response performance is limited to the performance characteristics of the slowest resolver dependency unless you issue multiple queries which really limits the ability of GQL to serve as a near perfect abstraction over legacy APIs etc.

I have 3 queries to paint a page now to keep things performing and it's a real mess... they are aptly named fastQuery mediumQuery and slowQuery 😦

[glasser]

The implementation of @defer in graphql-js is close to done, though there are still some tweaks being made. We are hoping to support it in Apollo Server this year!

[hwillson]

We'll be tracking @defer / @stream work in #5893. Thanks!