Building Custom GraphQL Tooling For Your Team

One of the main reasons we started using GraphQL for data fetching in the Stripe Dashboard was the variety of off-the-shelf tooling available in the community. As we integrated, we discovered opportunities to improve the stack, and some needs that were specific to Stripe. Thankfully, GraphQL also makes it really convenient to build custom tools to fit the specific needs of your project or organization.

In this talk, you’ll learn about why GraphQL is uniquely suited to building custom tooling that won’t create a huge maintenance burden. First, I’ll cover some examples of the tools we built for our GraphQL implementation at Stripe. Then, I’ll go over how you can build on top of existing libraries including GraphQL.js and graphql-tools. Finally, I’ll give a step-by-step guide to building a new custom tool that you could use at your own company—a script that tells you where a certain GraphQL field is used in your frontend code.