Cannot use intellisense for server GQL while using generated localSchemaFile

[addiebarron]

We have a generated schema file, schema.graphql. The file is generated by merging definitions from gql tags throughout our typescript backend.

We would like to get intellisense, autocomplete, etc. within those gql tags in our typescript backend files. In order to do that, it seems like we must include those files in our apollo.config.js via the includes key. But if we do this, the language server repeatedly crashes with a ton of errors along these lines: Type "XXX" already exists in the schema. It cannot also be defined.... For reference, here is our config, roughly:

module.exports = {
  client: {
    service: {
      name: "service-name",
      localSchemaFile: "./generated/schema.graphql",
    },
    includes: [
      "./src/client/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}",
      // If we include these server files, everything breaks
      "./src/server/**/*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}"
    ],
    excludes: [
      "**/*tests.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}",
      "*.graphql",
    ],
  },
};

Ideally we would either 1) have the schema parsed from our ts files without loading the generated schema, or 2) be able to use intellisense for our ts files without merging them into the loaded schema.

[phryneas]

Hi there, sorry for the late response!

In your case, I would create two apollo.config.js files in the client and server folder respectively - the extension will detect those and apply different rules to those folders.