Use schema-ast plugin to generate the graphql schema (#2538)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ All notable, unreleased changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Extract permissions for subscription query - #3155 by @zaiste
 - Add custom request headers to webhook form - #3107 by @2can
 - Allow subscription query for sync events - #3099 by @2can
+- Simplify codegen configuration to generate the graphql schema - #2538 by @abumalick
 
 ## 3.4
 

fetch-schema.yml

@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@ generates:
   ./introspection.json:
     plugins:
       - introspection
+  ./schema.graphql:
+    plugins:
+      - schema-ast

package.json

@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
     "check-types": "tsc --noEmit",
     "extract-json-messages": "formatjs extract 'src/**/*.{ts,tsx}' --out-file locale/defaultMessages.json --format scripts/formatter.js",
     "extract-messages": "npm run extract-json-messages",
-    "fetch-schema": "graphql-codegen --config ./fetch-schema.yml && node scripts/build-schema.js",
+    "fetch-schema": "graphql-codegen --config ./fetch-schema.yml",
     "heroku-postbuild": "npm run build",
     "serve:lhci": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production npm run server",
     "prestart": "npm run build-types",

scripts/build-schema.js

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-/* eslint-disable no-console */
-/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
-const fs = require("fs");
-const graphql = require("graphql");
-const schema = require("../introspection.json");
-
-const clientSchema = graphql.buildClientSchema(schema);
-const schemaString = graphql.printSchema(clientSchema);
-
-fs.writeFile("schema.graphql", schemaString, err => {
-  if (err) {
-    throw err;
-  }
-  console.log("🚀 Schema from instrospection built successfully\n");
-});