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Flow Resolvers

Flow plugin for GraphQL Code Generator. Generates Flow types for your GraphQL resolvers.

Version
3.0.2
Weekly downloads
6k
License
MIT
Updated
Mar 11, 2026

Installation

          npm i -D @graphql-codegen/flow-resolvers
        

Config API Reference

addUnderscoreToArgsType

type: boolean

Adds _ to generated Args types in order to avoid duplicate identifiers.

contextType

type: string

Use this configuration to set a custom type for your context, and it will affect all the resolvers, without the need to override it using generics each time. If you wish to use an external type and import it from another file, you can use add plugin and add the required import statement, or you can use a module#type syntax.

fieldContextTypes

type: object

Use this to set a custom type for a specific field context. It will only affect the targeted resolvers. You can either use Field.Path#ContextTypeName or Field.Path#ExternalFileName#ContextTypeName

rootValueType

type: string

Use this configuration to set a custom type for the rootValue, and it will affect resolvers of all root types (Query, Mutation and Subscription), without the need to override it using generics each time. If you wish to use an external type and import it from another file, you can use add plugin and add the required import statement, or you can use both module#type or module#namespace#type syntax.

directiveContextTypes

type: object

Use this to set a custom type for a specific field context decorated by a directive. It will only affect the targeted resolvers. You can either use Field.Path#ContextTypeName or Field.Path#ExternalFileName#ContextTypeName

ContextTypeName should by a generic Type that take the context or field context type as only type parameter.

mapperTypeSuffix

type: string

Adds a suffix to the imported names to prevent name clashes.

mappers

type: object

Replaces a GraphQL type usage with a custom type, allowing you to return custom object from your resolvers. You can use both module#type and module#namespace#type syntax.

defaultMapper

type: string

Allow you to set the default mapper when it’s not being override by mappers or generics. You can specify a type name, or specify a string in module#type or module#namespace#type format. The default value of mappers is the TypeScript type generated by typescript package.

avoidOptionals

type: object

This will cause the generator to avoid using optionals (?), so all field resolvers must be implemented in order to avoid compilation errors. Default value: “false”

showUnusedMappers

type: boolean

Warns about unused mappers. Default value: “true”

enumValues

type: object

Overrides the default value of enum values declared in your GraphQL schema, supported in this plugin because of the need for integration with typescript package. See documentation under typescript plugin for more information and examples.

resolverTypeWrapperSignature

type: string

Allow you to override resolverTypeWrapper definition. Default value: “Promise | T”

federation

type: boolean

Supports Apollo Federation Default value: “false”

enumPrefix

type: boolean

Allow you to disable prefixing for generated enums, works in combination with typesPrefix. Default value: “true”

optionalResolveType

type: boolean

Sets the __resolveType field as optional field. Default value: “false”

immutableTypes

type: boolean

Generates immutable types by adding readonly to properties and uses ReadonlyArray. Default value: “false”

namespacedImportName

type: string

Prefixes all GraphQL related generated types with that value, as namespaces import. You can use this feature to allow separation of plugins to different files. Default value: ””“

resolverTypeSuffix

type: string

Suffix we add to each generated type resolver. Default value: “Resolvers”

allResolversTypeName

type: string

The type name to use when exporting all resolvers signature as unified type. Default value: “Resolvers”

internalResolversPrefix

type: string

Defines the prefix value used for __resolveType and __isTypeOf resolvers. If you are using mercurius-js, please set this field to empty string for better compatibility. Default value: ”’__‘“

onlyResolveTypeForInterfaces

type: boolean

Turning this flag to true will generate resolver signature that has only resolveType for interfaces, forcing developers to write inherited type resolvers in the type itself. Default value: “false”

strictScalars

type: boolean

Makes scalars strict.

If scalars are found in the schema that are not defined in scalars an error will be thrown during codegen. Default value: “false”

defaultScalarType

type: string

Allows you to override the type that unknown scalars will have. Default value: “any”

scalars

type: object

Extends or overrides the built-in scalars and custom GraphQL scalars to a custom type.

namingConvention

type: object

Allow you to override the naming convention of the output. You can either override all namings, or specify an object with specific custom naming convention per output. The format of the converter must be a valid module#method. Allowed values for specific output are: typeNames, enumValues. You can also use “keep” to keep all GraphQL names as-is. Additionally, you can set transformUnderscore to true if you want to override the default behavior, which is to preserve underscores.

Available case functions in change-case-all are camelCase, capitalCase, constantCase, dotCase, headerCase, noCase, paramCase, pascalCase, pathCase, sentenceCase, snakeCase, lowerCase, localeLowerCase, lowerCaseFirst, spongeCase, titleCase, upperCase, localeUpperCase and upperCaseFirst See more Default value: “change-case-all#pascalCase”

typesPrefix

type: string

Prefixes all the generated types. Default value: ""

typesSuffix

type: string

Suffixes all the generated types. Default value: ""

skipTypename

type: boolean

Does not add __typename to the generated types, unless it was specified in the selection set. Default value: “false”

nonOptionalTypename

type: boolean

Automatically adds __typename field to the generated types, even when they are not specified in the selection set, and makes it non-optional Default value: “false”

useTypeImports

type: boolean

Will use import type {} rather than import {} when importing only types. This gives compatibility with TypeScript’s “importsNotUsedAsValues”: “error” option Default value: “false”

dedupeFragments

type: boolean

Removes fragment duplicates for reducing data transfer. It is done by removing sub-fragments imports from fragment definition Instead - all of them are imported to the Operation node. Default value: “false”

inlineFragmentTypes

type: string

Whether fragment types should be inlined into other operations. “inline” is the default behavior and will perform deep inlining fragment types within operation type definitions. “combine” is the previous behavior that uses fragment type references without inlining the types (and might cause issues with deeply nested fragment that uses list types). Default value: “inline”

emitLegacyCommonJSImports

type: boolean

Emit legacy common js imports. Default it will be true this way it ensure that generated code works with non-compliant bundlers. Default value: “true”

Enum Resolvers

Apollo-Server and schemas built with graphql-tools supports creating resolvers for GraphQL enums.

This is helpful because you can have internal values that are different from the public enum values, and you can use the internal values in your resolvers.

Codegen allows you to specify either mappers or enumValues to map enums in your resolvers, and if you are using it for enums, you’ll get a resolver signature for the enum resolvers as well.

Usage Example

With the following schema:

type Query {
  favoriteColor: Color!
}

enum Color {
  RED
  BLUE
}
schema: schema.graphql
generates:
  ./resolvers-types.js:
    config:
      enumValues:
        Color: ./enums#ColorsCode
    plugins:
      - flow
      - flow-resolvers
enums.ts
export enum ColorsCode {
  MY_RED = '#FF0000',
  MY_BLUE = '#0000FF'
}
resolvers.ts
import { ColorsCode } from './enums'
import type { Resolvers } from './resolvers-types'

const resolvers: Resolvers = {
  Color: {
    RED: ColorsCode.MY_RED,
    BLUE: ColorsCode.MY_BLUE
  },
  Query: {
    favoriteColor: () => ColorsCode.MY_RED // Now you cn return this, and it will be mapped to your actual GraphQL enum
  }
}

You can also define the same with explicit enum values:

schema: schema.graphql
generates:
  ./resolvers-types.js:
    config:
      enumValues:
        Color:
          RED: '#FF0000'
          BLUE: '#0000FF'
    plugins:
      - flow
      - flow-resolvers

Or, with mappers:

schema: schema.graphql
generates:
  ./resolvers-types.js:
    config:
      mappers:
        Color: ./enums#ColorsCode
    plugins:
      - flow
      - flow-resolvers