graphql-scalars: A TypeScript repository from toondaey

A library of custom GraphQL scalar types for creating precise type-safe GraphQL schemas.

Installation

npm install --save graphql-scalars

yarn add graphql-scalars

Usage

To use these scalars you'll need to add them in two places, your schema and your resolvers map.

NOTE: The new RegularExpression scalar will be used a little differently and is explained below.

In your schema:

scalar DateTime

scalar EmailAddress

scalar NegativeFloat

scalar NegativeInt

scalar NonNegativeFloat

scalar NonNegativeInt

scalar NonPositiveFloat

scalar NonPositiveInt

scalar PhoneNumber

scalar PositiveFloat

scalar PositiveInt

scalar PostalCode

scalar UnsignedFloat

scalar UnsignedInt

scalar URL

scalar ObjectID

scalar BigInt

scalar Long

scalar GUID

scalar HexColorCode

scalar HSL

scalar HSLA

scalar IPv4

scalar IPv6

scalar ISBN

scalar MAC

scalar Port

scalar RGB

scalar RGBA

scalar USCurrency

scalar JSON

scalar JSONObject

In your resolver map, first import them:

import {
  DateTimeResolver,
  EmailAddressResolver,
  NegativeFloatResolver,
  NegativeIntResolver,
  NonNegativeFloatResolver,
  NonNegativeIntResolver,
  NonPositiveFloatResolver,
  NonPositiveIntResolver,
  PhoneNumberResolver,
  PositiveFloatResolver,
  PositiveIntResolver,
  PostalCodeResolver,
  UnsignedFloatResolver,
  UnsignedIntResolver,
  URLResolver,
  BigIntResolver,
  LongResolver,
  GUIDResolver,
  HexColorCodeResolver,
  HSLResolver,
  HSLAResolver,
  IPv4Resolver,
  IPv6Resolver,
  ISBNResolver,
  MACResolver,
  PortResolver,
  RGBResolver,
  RGBAResolver,
  USCurrencyResolver,
  JSONResolver,
  JSONObjectResolver,
  ObjectIDResolver,
} from 'graphql-scalars';

Then make sure they're in the root resolver map like this:

const myResolverMap = {
  ObjectID: ObjectIDResolver,

  DateTime: DateTimeResolver,

  NonPositiveInt: NonPositiveIntResolver,
  PositiveInt: PositiveIntResolver,
  NonNegativeInt: NonNegativeIntResolver,
  NegativeInt: NegativeIntResolver,
  NonPositiveFloat: NonPositiveFloatResolver,
  PositiveFloat: PositiveFloatResolver,
  NonNegativeFloat: NonNegativeFloatResolver,
  NegativeFloat: NegativeFloatResolver,
  UnsignedFloat: UnsignedFloatResolver,
  UnsignedInt: UnsignedIntResolver,
  BigInt: BigIntResolver,
  Long: LongResolver,

  EmailAddress: EmailAddressResolver,
  URL: URLResolver,
  PhoneNumber: PhoneNumberResolver,
  PostalCode: PostalCodeResolver,

  GUID: GUIDResolver,

  HexColorCode: HexColorCodeResolver,
  HSL: HSLResolver,
  HSLA: HSLAResolver,
  RGB: RGBResolver,
  RGBA: RGBAResolver,

  IPv4: IPv4Resolver,
  IPv6: IPv6Resolver,
  MAC: MACResolver,
  Port: PortResolver,

  ISBN: ISBNResolver,

  USCurrency: USCurrencyResolver,
  JSON: JSONResolver,
  JSONObject: JSONObjectResolver,

  Query: {
    // more stuff here
  },

  Mutation: {
    // more stuff here
  },
};

NOTE: NonNegativeFloat and NonNegativeInt are also available under the aliases UnsignedFloat and UnsignedInt, respectively.

Alternatively, use the default import and ES6's spread operator syntax:

import { resolvers } from 'graphql-scalars';

Then make sure they're in the root resolver map like this:

const myResolverMap = {
  ...resolvers,

  Query: {
    // more stuff here
  },

  Mutation: {
    // more stuff here
  },
};

That's it. Now you can use these scalar types in your schema definition like this:

type Person {
  birthDate: DateTime
  ageInYears: PositiveInt

  heightInInches: PositiveFloat

  minimumHourlyRate: NonNegativeFloat

  currentlyActiveProjects: NonNegativeInt

  email: EmailAddress
  homePage: URL

  phoneNumber: PhoneNumber
  homePostalCode: PostalCode
}

These scalars can be used just like the base, built-in ones.

Usage with Apollo Server

import { ApolloServer } from 'apollo-server';
import { makeExecutableSchema } from 'graphql-tools';
// import all scalars and resolvers
import { typeDefs, resolvers } from 'graphql-scalars';
// Alternatively, import individual scalars and resolvers
// import { DateTimeResolver, DateTimeTypeDefinition, ... } from "graphql-scalars"

const server = new ApolloServer({
  schema: makeExecutableSchema({
    typeDefs: [
      // use spread syntax to add scalar definitions to your schema
      ...typeDefs,
      // DateTimeTypeDefinition,
      // ...
      // ... other type definitions ...
    ],
    resolvers: {
      // use spread syntax to add scalar resolvers to your resolver map
      ...resolvers,
      // DateTimeResolver,
      // ...
      // ... remainder of resolver map ...
    },
  }),
});

server.listen().then(({ url }) => {
  console.log(`🚀 Server ready at ${url}`);
});

Using mocks with Apollo Server

import { ApolloServer } from 'apollo-server';
import { makeExecutableSchema } from 'graphql-tools';
// import all scalars and resolvers
import { typeDefs, resolvers, mocks } from 'graphql-scalars';
// Alternatively, import individual scalars and resolvers
// import { DateTimeResolver, DateTimeTypeDefinition, DateTimeMock, ... } from "graphql-scalars"

const server = new ApolloServer({
  typeDefs: [
    // use spread syntax to add scalar definitions to your schema
    ...typeDefs,
    // DateTimeTypeDefinition,
    // ...
    // ... other type definitions ...
  ],
  resolvers: {
    // use spread syntax to add scalar resolvers to your resolver map
    ...resolvers,
    // DateTimeResolver,
    // ...
    // ... remainder of resolver map ...
  },
  mocks: {
    // use spread syntax to add scalar resolvers to your resolver map
    ...mocks,
    // DateTimeMock,
    // ...
    // ... other mocks ...
  }
});

Usage with apollo-server-express and CommonJS imports

const { ApolloServer } = require('apollo-server-express');
// Import individual scalars and resolvers
const { DateTimeResolver, DateTimeTypeDefinition } = require('graphql-scalars');

const server = new ApolloServer({
  typeDefs: [
    DateTimeTypeDefinition,
    ...yourTypeDefs,
  ],
  resolvers: [
    { DateTime: DateTimeResolver }, // <-- Notable difference here
    ...yourResolvers,
  ],
});

server.listen().then(({ url }) => {
  console.log(`🚀 Server ready at ${url}`);
});

Using the RegularExpression scalar

First an explanation: To create a new scalar type to the GraphQL schema language, you must create an instance of a new GraphQLScalarType object that implements three general functions/methods: serialize, parseValue and parseLiteral which are used at different stages of processing your GraphQL types during queries and mutations. So creating a new scalar looks like this:

const MyScalar = new GraphQLScalarType({
    'MyScalar',

    description: 'A description of my scalar',

    serialize(value) {
      // ...
      return value;
    },

    parseValue(value) {
      // ...
      return value;
    },

    parseLiteral(ast) {
      // ...
      return ast.value;
    }
  });

Given this, if we want to create a new type that is essentially the same except for one little customizable aspect (e.g., a regular expression type that has all the same code except the regex is different) then we need to dynamically generate a new GraphQLScalarType object given some parameters. That's the approach we take here.

Therefore the RegularExpression scalar type is really a GraphQLScalarType object generator that takes two arguments:

a name
the regex you want it to use

So to create a new scalar for a given regex, you will do this:

const MyRegexType = new RegularExpression('MyRegexType', /^ABC$/);

Now MyRegexType is your new GraphQL scalar type that will enforce a value of, in this case, "ABC".

Add your new scalar type to your resolver map:

export default {
  MyRegexType,
};

And to your schema:

scalar MyRegexType

That's it. Now you can use MyRegexType as a type in the rest of your schema.

RegularExpression options

There is an optional third options argument to the RegularExpression constructor that can be used like this:

const options = {
  errorMessage: (regex, value) => {
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production')
      return `Value is invalid format: ${value} `;
    else
      return `Value does not match the regular expression ${regex}: ${value}`;
  },
};

const MyRegexType = new RegularExpression('MyRegexType', /^ABC$/, options);

Why?

The primary purposes these scalars, really of all types are to:

Communicate to users of your schema exactly what they can expect or to at least reduce ambiguity in cases where that's possible. For example if you have a Person type in your schema and that type has as field like ageInYears, the value of that can only be null or a positive integer (or float, depending on how you want your schema to work). It should never be zero or negative.
Run-time type checking. GraphQL helps to tighten up the contract between client and server. It does this with strong typing of the interface (or schema). This helps us have greater confidence about what we're receiving from the server and what the server is receiving from the client.

This package adds to the base options available in GraphQL to support types that are reasonably common in defining schemas or interfaces to data.

The Types

DateTime

Use real JavaScript Dates for GraphQL fields. Currently you can use a String or an Int (e.g., a timestamp in milliseconds) to represent a date/time. This scalar makes it easy to be explicit about the type and have a real JavaScript Date returned that the client can use without doing the inevitable parsing or conversion themselves.

NonNegativeInt

Integers that will have a value of 0 or more. Uses parseInt().

NonPositiveInt

Integers that will have a value of 0 or less. Uses parseInt().

PositiveInt

Integers that will have a value greater than 0. Uses parseInt().

NegativeInt

Integers that will have a value less than 0. Uses parseInt().

NonNegativeFloat

Floats that will have a value of 0 or more. Uses parseFloat().

NonPositiveFloat

Floats that will have a value of 0 or less. Uses parseFloat().

PositiveFloat

Floats that will have a value greater than 0. Uses parseFloat().

NegativeFloat

Floats that will have a value less than 0. Uses parseFloat().

EmailAddress

A field whose value conforms to the standard internet email address format as specified in RFC822.

URL

A field whose value conforms to the standard URL format as specified in RFC3986, and it uses real JavaScript URL objects.

PhoneNumber

A field whose value conforms to the standard E.164 format as specified in E.164 specification. Basically this is +17895551234. The very powerful libphonenumber library is available to take that format, parse and display it in whatever display format you want. It can also be used to parse user input and get the E.164 format to pass into a schema.

ObjectID

A field whose value conforms to the mongodb object id format as explained in the documentation

PostalCode

We're going to start with a limited set as suggested here and here.

Which gives us the following countries:

US - United States
UK - United Kingdom
DE - Germany
CA - Canada
FR - France
IT - Italy
AU - Australia
NL - Netherlands
ES - Spain
DK - Denmark
SE - Sweden
BE - Belgium
IN - India

This is really a practical decision of weight (of the package) vs. completeness.

In the future we might expand this list and use the more comprehensive list found here.

BigInt

A long integer type for graphql-js. This implementation gives you more than 32 bits rather than the default 32-bit GraphQLInt. It uses native BigInt implementation of JavaScript. The GraphQL spec limits its Int type to 32-bits. Maybe you've seen this error before: Issue on graphql-js

GraphQLError: Argument "num" has invalid value 9007199254740990.
              Expected type "Int", found 9007199254740990.

Based on graphql-bigint

GUID

A field whose value is a generic Globally Unique Identifier.

Hexadecimal

A field whose value is a hexadecimal.

HexColorCode

A field whose value is a hex color code.

HSL

A field whose value is a CSS HSL color.

IPv4

A field whose value is a IPv4 address.

IPv6

A field whose value is a IPv6 address.

ISBN

A field whose value is a ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 number.

MAC

A field whose value is a IEEE 802 48-bit MAC address.

Port

A field whose value is a valid TCP port within the range of 0 to 65535.

RGB

A field whose value is a CSS RGB color.

RGBA

A field whose value is a CSS RGBA color.

USCurrency

A US currency string, such as $21.25.

Uses graphql-currency-scalars

JSON

The JSON scalar type represents JSON values as specified by ECMA-404.

Uses graphql-type-json

JSONObject

The JSONObject scalar type represents JSON objects as specified by ECMA-404.

Uses graphql-type-json

IBAN

Includes IBAN specifications for the following countries:

AD - Andorra
AE - United Arab Emirates
AL - Albania
AO - Angola
AT - Austria
AZ - Azerbaijan
BA - Bosnia and Herzegovina
BE - Belgium
BF - Burkina Faso
BG - Bulgaria
BH - Bahrain
BI - Burundi
BJ - Benin
BR - Brazil
BY - Belarus
CH - Switzerland
CI - Côte d'Ivoire
CM - Cameroon
CR - Costa Rica
CV - Cabo Verde
CY - Cyprus
DE - Germany
DK - Denmark
DO - Dominican Republic
DZ - Algeria
EE - Estonia
ES - Spain
FI - Finland
FO - Faroe Islands
FR - France
GB - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
GE - Georgia
GI - Gibraltar
GL - Greenland
GR - Greece
GT - Guatemala
HR - Croatia
HU - Hungary
IE - Ireland
IL - Israel
IQ - Iraq
IR - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
IS - Iceland
IT - Italy
JO - Jordan
KW - Kuwait
KZ - Kazakhstan
LB - Lebanon
LC - Saint Lucia
LI - Liechtenstein
LT - Lithuania
LU - Luxembourg
LV - Latvia
MC - Monaco
MD - Moldova, Republic of
ME - Montenegro
MG - Madagascar
MK - North Macedonia
ML - Mali
MR - Mauritania
MT - Malta
MU - Mauritius
MZ - Mozambique
NL - Netherlands
NO - Norway
PK - Pakistan
PL - Poland
PS - Palestine, State of
PT - Portugal
QA - Qatar
RO - Romania
RS - Serbia
SA - Saudi Arabia
SC - Seychelles
SE - Sweden
SI - Slovenia
SK - Slovakia
SM - San Marino
SN - Senegal
ST - Sao Tome and Principe
SV - El Salvador
TL - Timor-Leste
TN - Tunisia
TR - Turkey
UA - Ukraine
VA - Holy See
VG - Virgin Islands (British)
XK - Kosovo

RegularExpression

A GraphQLScalarType object generator that takes two arguments:

name - The name of your custom type
regex - The regex to be used to check against any values for fields with this new type

const MyRegexType = new RegularExpression('MyRegexType', /^ABC$/);

What's this all about?

GraphQL is a wonderful new approach to application data and API layers that's gaining momentum. If you have not heard of it, start here and check out Apollo also.

However, for all of GraphQL's greatness. It is missing a couple things that we have (and you might) find very useful in defining your schemas. Namely GraphQL has a limited set of scalar types and we have found there are some additional scalar types that are useful in being more precise in our schemas. Thankfully, those sharp GraphQL folks provided a simple way to add new custom scalar types if needed. That's what this package does.

NOTE: We don't fault the GraphQL folks for these omissions. They have kept the core small and clean. Arguably not every project needs these additional scalar types. But we have, and now you can use them too if needed.

License

Released under the MIT license.

Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are always welcome.

Please read our contribution guidelines.

Thanks

This library was originally published as @okgrow/graphql-scalars. It was created and maintained by the company ok-grow. We, The Guild, took over the maintaince of that library later on.

We also like to say thank you to @adriano-di-giovanni for being extremely generous and giving us the graphql-scalars name on npm which was previously owned by his own library.

toondaey/graphql-scalars

Installation

Usage

Usage with Apollo Server

Using mocks with Apollo Server

Usage with apollo-server-express and CommonJS imports

Using the RegularExpression scalar

RegularExpression options

Why?

The Types

DateTime

NonNegativeInt

NonPositiveInt

PositiveInt

NegativeInt

NonNegativeFloat

NonPositiveFloat

PositiveFloat

NegativeFloat

EmailAddress

URL

PhoneNumber

ObjectID

PostalCode

BigInt

GUID

Hexadecimal

HexColorCode

HSL

IPv4

IPv6

ISBN

MAC

Port

RGB

RGBA

USCurrency

JSON

JSONObject

IBAN

RegularExpression

What's this all about?

License

Contributing

Thanks