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I am thinking of the case where you are passing an object or class to an API that needs to be shaped a certain way. In this case you need to know which type to import/use to pass it through.

For many simple libraries it's not too much of an issue, but for more complex things like Apollo (which also doesn't include much TS in their docs) it's a lot of hit and miss until you get it right.

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Sure, that can happen. I guess I feel like if it's that much of a problem for any given library, you always have various ways of disabling checks where you need to and still benefiting from them elsewhere. So it's still a net benefit

I will also say- GraphQL almost by nature is gonna be a really hairy thing to statically type, especially on the server side. We've got an Apollo server at my company and thus far we've pretty much just punted on trying to type that part of things. Which is also more okay than might be for other things, because GQL does its own runtime validation anyway

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