Automating Type Safety: How to Generate TypeScript Types from a GraphQL Schema

Automatically generating TypeScript types based on a GraphQL schema is a powerful way to ensure type safety between your backend and frontend codebases. This can be achieved using various tools, and one of the most popular is graphql-codegen by The Guild.

Here’s how you can set up GraphQL Code Generator to automatically generate TypeScript types for your GraphQL schema.

Install GraphQL Code Generator