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Wow! Great job! This would be awesome to use together with apollo-client.

Is this not a client library that competes with apollo-client?

You can use it with any stack you want. Apollo is not only a client tool but also many other cool tools for GraphQL. I created this tool for simpler situations. Also here you have query safely typed so you don't have to remember the whole schema.

But I mean you would use this as your client to make queries, in place of apollo client right?

If all I need is communication with GraphQL server then yes. If I need the cache and all the other stuff then I use apollo.

Can babel plugin transpile this to whatever ApolloClient.query consumes?

This is generated code to use in your project before transpilation - that's why it generates declaration files also. However that points me to a conclusion I need to export query generator in generated file so you can use it together with Apollo query

So I was thinking of using the additional features of Apollo client such as caching, network status etc, while leveraging the auto-complete and typesafety of GraphQL Zeus. Auto-complete is what I really miss from Apollo and I feel like the type-generation from gql-tags is a more cumbersome way than what Zeus is doing.

EDIT: I've just found it. I saw this before, this is a totally different approach with many dependencies underneath. Having to install many packages, using specific editor, etc.. This setup might be the best of course, but I am 99% sure it's hard to maintain so many packages to have GraphQL syntax up-to-date. I used it before but was angry they didn't support the new documentation format.

GraphQL Zeus is only one functionality package so it is easier to maintain.

Whats gql-tags? Can you show me?

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