Feature request: GraphQL subscriptions

jamesmacaulay / elm-graphql

A GraphQL library for Elm

http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/jamesmacaulay/elm-graphql/latest

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Feature request: GraphQL subscriptions #2

Open gothy opened 7 years ago

gothy commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your great work! 👍

It's be great to see subscriptions support in the future since they're supported all over the major GQL-as-a-service backends these days and it's the major selling point to use graphql (for me) :)

jamesmacaulay commented 7 years ago

I forgot to include it in the "future plans" section of the readme, but this is definitely something I'd like to support!

xtian commented 6 years ago

@jamesmacaulay Do you have any thoughts on how subscriptions should be implemented? I'm interested in working on this

jamesmacaulay commented 6 years ago

@xtian I haven't researched subscriptions very deeply so I don't have many strong opinions about it. I can think of a couple broad constraints though:

The solution should be able to accommodate all the current major server implementations and ideally be forward-compatible with however the spec ends up.
The primary interface for defining subscriptions shouldn't have any dependencies on the transport layer.

Contributions are welcome if you'd like to dig in! Please just share your work-in-progress as you go to keep the feedback loop tight.

birge commented 6 years ago

Is there any update on this? Would love to start using this in a project but subscriptions are a high priority. Great work so far though, thank you.

xtian commented 6 years ago

For our project we actually switched to using dillonkearns/graphqelm which has subscription support for our back-end (Absinthe).