Add GraphQL Support

[Richienb]

It would be useful if gh-got provided a graphql function that made requests using the GitHub GraphQL API v4.

// @sindresorhus

[sindresorhus]

Agreed

[fregante]

I just remembered about this wrapper. Why would one use it instead of the official ones?

https://github.com/octokit/rest.js
https://github.com/octokit/graphql.js

First party, well typed, paginated, etc

[sindresorhus]

@fregante The official clients came out (or rather was officially adopted by GitHub) two years after this package was made.

This package is mostly just useful if you want low overhead and just need a couple of API calls.

We should definitely add those packages to the readme as recommendations.

[fregante]

two years after this package was made

I'm aware, but I'm very quick to deprecate my own packages when I see someone found a better solution. Specifically for this issue I don't think it's a good investment to add GraphQL here when there's already something.

package is mostly just useful if you want low overhead

I think got has more overhead than you think 😅

❯ npx package-size gh-got @octokit/rest

  package               size       minified   gzipped
  gh-got@9.0.0          755.86 KB  221.33 KB  68.36 KB
  @octokit/rest@18.0.6  128.98 KB  59.06 KB   12.67 KB

Edit: the install size differs however due to >2 MB of Types in Octokit:

https://packagephobia.com/result?p=gh-got
https://packagephobia.com/result?p=%40octokit%2Frest

[sindresorhus]

You're right. No reason to use this package, unless you really want raw access to the endpoints for some reason. And no point in adding more features.