.graphqlconfig support

[homburg]

Currently it is not supported to load configuration from the standard .graphqlconfig.

It was removed in 202d3f5 included in #497

Are there any plans to support .graphqlconfig again?

[dfreeman]

Would the team here be open to a PR reintroducing .graphqlconfig support, or was the removal deliberate? Is it not expressive enough to capture things that are important for Apollo projects? I'd love to get a sense of the motivations 🙂

The broader ecosystem seems to be standardizing on it for things like editor support and other tooling, and Apollo's own eslint-plugin-graphql supports reading from .graphqlconfig. It would be nice not to need to duplicate information in different places for different tools.

[JakeDawkins]

We don't have plans for supporting .graphqlconfig right now. Part of the reason for this is the constant evolution of the needs for an apollo config. We need a lot of configuration options around engine settings, and there's a chance for more complicated extensions to the config in the future with our federation work.

Supporting other config formats (or making them the primary) would be pretty difficult, and very verbose.

This may someday be up for consideration, but right now we don't have the bandwidth to work on this.