Strawberry Meeting #9

[patrick91]

Strawberry meeting #8

Date: September 14, 2021, at 16:30 UTC+1 (your timezone)

Discord: https://strawberry.rocks/discord

Welcome!

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Name	GitHub Handle
Patrick Arminio	@patrick91
Jonathan Kim	@jkimbo
Bryce Beagle	@BryceBeagle
Jeremy Berman	@jerber

Agenda Items

• Direction & goals of Strawberry
• Django support
• v1.0 and new website
• Hacktober fest (local event in London?)
• strawberry.context (@jkimbo) Add strawberry.context #1243

Direction

General direction is to make strawberry a library with great DX and community, as stated here: https://strawberry.rocks/docs/general/why

Should we have batteries included?

Yes, for now. we can decided in future if we want to split the library. We are doing a good
job of not asking for all the dependencies by using optional reps and extras, we can keep doing
that. We'll see if having a lot of integration in our code base gets messy in future.

How opinionated?

We can be opinionated, but we can allow people to "break" conventions when they know all the tradeoffs or have different preferences.

Make documentation consistent and opinionated, but still having the core flexible enough.

We should try to reduce the number of breaking changes for internal things (if people rely on them).

v0.x helps with this as it "allows" us to change API when we need, for now :)

Django support - Pydantic

Exposing fields by passing a flag? or configuration option
DRF has __all__ (this should be propagated to nested classes)

Figure out if it makes sense to merge bits of the django integration for now.

After that we can see how to re-use parts of the integration with Pydantic.

v1.0 and new website

We might have a new website for version 1.0 (not sure when this will happen).
We should implement Search ASAP

To solidify for version 1:

1. Enums (name vs value)
2. Scalars
3. Type checkers (mypy, pyright and pycharm) for DX (add more test)
4. Docs
5. Internals restructure #849
6. Basic Pagination (?) A guide (?)
7. decorator for experimental things (shown in docs and in logs) TBC

Hacktober fest (local event in London?)

We should groom issues, making easier to find issues for new contributors

Talk with Django London to see if we can combine the event (in person)

Extensions

Issues for extensions might be a good first issue

See some ideas of extensions here: https://www.envelop.dev/plugins

strawberry.context

We discussed @jkimbo's suggestion of using ContextVar for strawberry.context, but
there is not a lot of benefit in using them (user can still use them manually if needed).

We'll move it to a discussion and see if we should revisit in future.

Actions

@patrick91 Run tests without installed dependencies
@patrick91 Check if we are caching deps
@patrick91 Send more stickers