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I like GraphQL a lot — but found that writing mutations involved a ton of boilerplate. For example, I'd have to keep writing the same key names over and over again. Anyone else experience this?

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You could use input types and reduce the boilerplate to a single parameter, which you then send as an object in the request variables?

yeah that's what i did. inputs also help a bit with code reuse, imho.

Yes, Mutations are still annoying to write. Especially with all the optimisticResponses and pushing things into collections.

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