TypeScript React Apollo
GraphQL Code Generator plugin for TypeScript and React Apollo. Generates React Hooks and HOCs for your GraphQL operations.
- Version
- 5.0.0
- Weekly downloads
- 1.1M
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- Aug 17, 2026
Installation
npm i -D @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo
yarn add -D @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo
pnpm add -D @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo
bun add -D @graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo
Config API Reference
withComponent
type: boolean
Customize the output by enabling/disabling the generated Component (deprecated since Apollo-Client v3). For more details: https://apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/components Default value: “false”
withHOC
type: boolean
Customize the output by enabling/disabling the HOC (deprecated since Apollo-Client v3). For more details: https://apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/hoc Default value: “false”
withHooks
type: boolean
Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated React Hooks. For more details: https://apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react/hooks Default value: “true”
withMutationFn
type: boolean
Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated mutation function signature. Default value: “true”
withRefetchFn
type: boolean
Enable generating a function to be used with refetchQueries Default value: “false”
apolloReactCommonImportFrom
type: string
Customize the package where apollo-react common lib is loaded from. Default value: “@apollo/react-common”
apolloReactComponentsImportFrom
type: string
Customize the package where apollo-react component lib is loaded from. Default value: “@apollo/react-components”
apolloReactHocImportFrom
type: string
Customize the package where apollo-react HOC lib is loaded from. Default value: “@apollo/react-hoc”
apolloReactHooksImportFrom
type: string
Customize the package where apollo-react hooks lib is loaded from. Default value: “@apollo/react-hooks”
componentSuffix
type: string
You can specify a suffix that gets attached to the name of the generated component. Default value: “Component”
reactApolloVersion
type: number
Sets the version of react-apollo.
If you are using the old (deprecated) package of react-apollo, please set this configuration to 2.
If you are using Apollo-Client v3, please set this to 3.
Default value: “3”
withResultType
type: boolean
Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated result type. Default value: “true”
withMutationOptionsType
type: boolean
Customized the output by enabling/disabling the generated mutation option type. Default value: “true”
withFragmentHooks
type: boolean
Whether or not to include wrappers for Apollo’s useFragment hook. Default value: “false”
addDocBlocks
type: boolean
Allows you to enable/disable the generation of docblocks in generated code. Some IDE’s (like VSCode) add extra inline information with docblocks, you can disable this feature if your preferred IDE does not. Default value: “true”
defaultBaseOptions
type: object
Configure default mutation and query hook options.
hooksSuffix
type: string
gqlImport
type: string
Customize from which module will gql be imported from.
This is useful if you want to use modules other than graphql-tag, e.g. graphql.macro.
Default value: “graphql-tag#gql”
documentNodeImport
type: string
Customize from which module will DocumentNode be imported from.
This is useful if you want to use modules other than graphql, e.g. @graphql-typed-document-node.
Default value: “graphql#DocumentNode”
noExport
type: boolean
Set this configuration to true if you wish to tell codegen to generate code with no export identifier.
Default value: “false”
dedupeOperationSuffix
type: boolean
Set this configuration to true if you wish to make sure to remove duplicate operation name suffix.
Default value: “false”
omitOperationSuffix
type: boolean
Set this configuration to true if you wish to disable auto add suffix of operation name, like Query, Mutation, Subscription, Fragment.
Default value: “false”
operationResultSuffix
type: string
Adds a suffix to generated operation result type names Default value: ""
documentVariablePrefix
type: string
Changes the GraphQL operations variables prefix. Default value: ""
documentVariableSuffix
type: string
Changes the GraphQL operations variables suffix. Default value: “Document”
fragmentVariablePrefix
type: string
Changes the GraphQL fragments variables prefix. Default value: ""
fragmentVariableSuffix
type: string
Changes the GraphQL fragments variables suffix. Default value: “FragmentDoc”
documentMode
type: object
Declares how DocumentNode are created:
graphQLTag:graphql-tagor other modules (checkgqlImport) will be used to generate document nodes. If this is used, document nodes are generated on client side i.e. the module used to generate this will be shipped to the clientdocumentNode: document nodes will be generated as objects when we generate the templates.documentNodeImportFragments: Similar to documentNode except it imports external fragments instead of embedding them.external: document nodes are imported from an external file. To be used withimportDocumentNodeExternallyFrom
Note that some plugins (like typescript-graphql-request) also supports string for this parameter.
Default value: “graphQLTag”
optimizeDocumentNode
type: boolean
If you are using documentMode: documentNode | documentNodeImportFragments, you can set this to true to apply document optimizations for your GraphQL document.
This will remove all “loc” and “description” fields from the compiled document, and will remove all empty arrays (such as directives, arguments and variableDefinitions).
Default value: “true”
importOperationTypesFrom
type: string
This config is used internally by presets, but you can use it manually to tell codegen to prefix all base types that it’s using.
This is useful if you wish to generate base types from typescript-operations plugin into a different file, and import it from there.
Default value: ""
importDocumentNodeExternallyFrom
type: string
This config should be used if documentMode is external. This has 2 usage:
- any string: This would be the path to import document nodes from. This can be used if we want to manually create the document nodes e.g. Use
graphql-tagin a separate file and export the generated document - ‘near-operation-file’: This is a special mode that is intended to be used with
near-operation-filepreset to import document nodes from those files. If these files are.graphqlfiles, we make use of webpack loader. Default value: ""
pureMagicComment
type: boolean
This config adds PURE magic comment to the static variables to enforce treeshaking for your bundler. Default value: “false”
experimentalFragmentVariables
type: boolean
If set to true, it will enable support for parsing variables on fragments. 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”
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). “mask” transforms the types for use with fragment masking. Useful when masked types are needed when not using the “client” preset e.g. such as combining it with Apollo Client’s data masking feature. 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”
importExtension
type: object
Append this extension to all imports. Useful for ESM environments that require file extensions in import statements.
extractAllFieldsToTypes
type: boolean
Extract all field types to their own types, instead of inlining them. This helps to reduce type duplication, and makes type errors more readable. It can also significantly reduce the size of the generated code, the generation time, and the typechecking time. Default value: “false”
printFieldsOnNewLines
type: boolean
If you prefer to have each field in generated types printed on a new line, set this to true. This can be useful for improving readability of the resulting types, without resorting to running tools like Prettier on the output. Default value: “false”
includeExternalFragments
type: boolean
Whether to include external fragments in the generated code. External fragments are not defined in the same location as the operation definition. Default value: “false”
Usage Example
With React Hooks
For the given input:
And the following configuration:
Codegen will pre-compile the GraphQL operation into a DocumentNode object, and generate a
ready-to-use React Hook for each operation you have.
In your application code, you can import it from the generated file, and use the React Hook in your component code:
Generate Data Component
Codegen also supports generating data Components (deprecated in @apollo/client v3), you can turn
it on this way:
Generate HOC
Codegen also supports generating High-Order-Components (deprecated in @apollo/client v3), you can
turn it on this way: