Support for Relay Modern with babel-plugin-relay

[renatonmendes]

I´m building my first GraphQL and Relay project using a GraphQL server, a create-react-app client and following the instructions on babel-plugin-relay to make my code recognize the graphql syntax graphql.

After setting up the whole environment, I´ve build the GraphQL server. All fine and working.

When I moved to client, I simply could not use babel-plugin-relay as instructed in the official documentation. After hours trying to solve I found out that the babel-plugin-relay can only be added to create-react-app if we eject the project.

Both create-react-app and babel-plugin-relay were born at Facebook, as well as Relay, and I see no reason why create-react-app does not support babel-plugin-relay without ejecting. Seens to be a couple of lines addition to current create-react-app babel configuration version, so:

a) Is is planned a version of create-react-app that will support the babel-plugin-relay required for Relay Modern ?

b) Considering the current situation, what is the best approach to include babel-plugin-relay to create-react-app without ejecting ?

[shanewilson]

Maybe this will help?
https://github.com/shanewilson/jailbreak-react-scripts#adding-relay-to-cra

There are some other project along the same lines if that one doesn't work for you.

[renatonmendes]

I have already included create-react-app in my project, but my proposal is to adopt it natively in the create-react-app project. It is a proposal.

[maletor]

#2343

[gaearon]

Closing as a duplicate of #2001.