Overview

Houdini is a tool that aims to enhance the developer experience by enabling composable and colocated data requirements for components. It provides a normalized cache with declarative updates, generated types, subscriptions, and pagination. Unlike traditional approaches that result in bloated runtimes, Houdini achieves a lean GraphQL abstraction by shifting the necessary steps to the compile stage.

Features

• Composable and colocated data requirements for components
• Normalized cache with declarative updates
• Generated types
• Subscriptions
• Pagination (cursors and offsets)

Installation

To install Houdini, follow these steps:

1. Step one

npm install houdini

2. Step two

cd your-project-directory

3. Step three

houdini init

Summary

Houdini is a tool that improves the developer experience by providing composable and colocated data requirements for components. It offers a lean GraphQL abstraction by moving the necessary steps to the compile stage, resulting in better performance and smaller bundle sizes. With features like a normalized cache, generated types, subscriptions, and pagination, Houdini simplifies application development and enhances productivity.