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Hey @Offirmo 👋
Great question! The purpose of graphql-shield
is to ease the development of permission layer in your GraphQL server. As you've mentioned, it might as well be interpreted as some kind of a firewall. GraphQL Shield is particularly useful when permitting ceratin functionality to authenticated users only for example. I recommend you take a look at the examples in the examples
folder.
https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-shield/tree/master/examples
The idea behind GraphQL Shield is the abstraction of permission
layer and ease of reuse of your permission queries. All of the functionality can be achieved without using GraphQL Shield, but I found myself repeating over and over again when doing it manually - that's why I created graphql-shield
.
So, to answer your question, graphql-shield
protects your server from unwanted access. Thanks for pointing out the lack of understanding, I will try to find a better description. I hope I answered your question, but feel free to ask some more 🙂
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Hello @maticzav -- may I add that graphql-shield
serves Authorization requirements of a GraphQL server (vs. Authentication)?
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Great! Just add this to the README now ;)
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@Offirmo I just updated README.
@picosam thanks for pointing this out 🙂
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Related Issues (20)
- Add the ability to use Fragments and post-execution rules with the single server/schema
- Add Typescript typings to rule args
- Add the ability to attach rules using GraphQL Directives
- CI: add codecov reports
- Provide a way to expose authorization metadata through the graphql schema
- GraphQL Shield Roadmap HOT 1
- 7.6.4 ESM build broken HOT 5
- Documentation website down HOT 1
- How to use `if` condition in GraphQL Shield HOT 2
- Shield rules type generation based on schema HOT 1
- Feature request: wildcard functionality for field names
- Update [email protected] module to avoid @types/lodash and babel runtime in production deps
- fallbackError loses custom error types
- fallbackRule context information HOT 2
- Question: Is there a way to return objects on rules?
- ..
- Typo in the Docs
- Shield permissions only working properly with 'debug: true' HOT 1
- Performance -- every field wrapped is unnecessarily wrapped in a promise HOT 1
- Documents are not populated when running `graphql-shield`, thus leading to `undefined` permission errors.
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