
# FastAPI integration

Not long ago we became [FastAPI](https://twitter.com/FastAPI)'s recommended
[library for GraphQL](https://strawberry.rocks):

<Tweet tweetLink="FastAPI/status/1444731443259793409" align="center" />

And slightly after [Jiří Bireš](https://github.com/jiribires) contributed a
[PR to add a proper integration for FastAPI](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1291).

We used to recommend using ASGI for integrating for FastAPI, but now we have
[a better integration based on API Routers](https://strawberry.rocks/docs/integrations/fastapi#fastapi)
and allows to use FastAPI's dependency injection system.

Also super happy to see many people reviewing this PR and making it better 😊

# Pydantic integration update

[Matt Allen](https://github.com/Matt343) made
[a PR to udpdate our Pydantic integration to match Strawberry's Django API](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1280).
The old API is now deprecated, but we will keep it for a while since it is being
used by few people. The API looks like this:

```python
import pydantic
import strawberry
from strawberry.experimental.pydantic import auto

class User(pydantic.BaseModel):
    age: int
    password: str


@strawberry.experimental.pydantic.type(User)
class UserType:
    age: auto
    password: auto
```

instead of passing a list of `fields` to the decorator, you can now use the same
API you use for all our decorators, but you can also use the "magic" `auto`
keyword to let Strawberry infer the type from the Pydantic model.

This API is much nice than `fields` since it allows to easily declared the
exposed fields and allows to also edit description of a specific field without
having to pass the type of the field manually.

# `merge_types` utility

[Alexandru Mărășteanu](https://github.com/alexei) made a
[PR with a `merge_types` utilty](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1273).
This new function allows to merge multiple types into one. It looks like this:

```python
@strawberry.type
class QueryA:
    ...

@strawberry.type
class QueryB:
    ...

ComboQuery = merge_types((QueryB, QueryA))

schema = strawberry.Schema(query=ComboQuery)
```

This is an alternative to create a class that inherits from both `QueryA` and
`QueryB`, and might be preferred by some people.

# Test improvements

[Michael Ossareh](https://github.com/ossareh) made a
[PR to run tests on Windows](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1321).
He also fixed a small issue when running the Strawberry debug server on windows.

Now that we have tests running on windows, I've made a
[PR to add caching to our tests](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1349).
Not sure I didn't do this earlier, but now our tests should run quite faster as
they don't install all the dependencies all the time.

I've also made a
[PR to separate the Django tests](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1351).
So now we have less tests to run for each python version and we'll also only run
Django tests for the latest version of Django. There's not much need for us to
run Django tests for multiple python versions. This will make our test suite
faster.

# Other PRs

[Ester](https://github.com/estyxx) made a
[PR to add some checks when using `@strawberry.type` and other decorators](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1292).
This will make it easier to work with Strawberry as it should make it easier to
identify potential mistakes.

[Jon](https://github.com/jkimbo) made a
[PR with a test page for our docs](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1297).
This is useful for us to check and improve our docs layout 😊

Jon also made a
[PR to fix a big that was swallowing errors in `on_parse_*` extension hook](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1324).

Finally Jon made a
[PR to update our schema docs](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1300)

[Luke Murray](https://github.com/lukesmurray) made a
[PR to resolve LazyTypes in arguments](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1350).
LazyTypes are useful when you have circular dependencies and now they work for
arguments too!

I made a
[PR to run tests on Python 3.10 stable](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1306).

I also had to make [a fix to prevent Strawberry to install FastAPI by
default](Fix for groups
https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1366). Turns out marking
dependencies as optional doesn't work if they are not in an "extra" group.

# Fin

I'm falling a bit behind with these updates, as they were supposed to be weekly
updates, but in the last months I skipped them twice. I'll try to get back on
track soon, I have some personal life changes happening now, but hopefully they
won't distract me too much 😊


17 October 2021

Open-source updates


# Issues cleanup

It's Hacktoberfest 🎃 time! This means we will get some new people wanting to contribute to Strawberry this month! So I spent a bit of time cleaning up old issues and checking if labels were alright 😊

If you want to help feel free to take a look at [the issues label as "good-first-issue"](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22).

# Python 3.10

Python 3.10 is going to be released this month, so we made a PR to add support for it. I had this open for quite a few months, but was waiting for dependencies to fix some issues. Now all of them seems to be working fine on Python 3.10, so I've update the PR to fix a couple of issues with Python 3.10 and to also add support for the new union syntax, which allows you to declare unions like so:

```python
import strawberry

@strawberry.type
class User:
    name: str

@strawberry.type
class Error:
    code: str

@strawberry.type
class Query:
    find_user: User | Error
```

Release is available [here](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/releases/tag/0.80.1).

# Website improvements

I honestly can't fully remember why I did start working on this, but I always wanted a better code block for our website. I always liked Stripe's docs and always wanted to copy some of their code block features, for example being able to add inline notes to parts of the code.

This is something I've now implemented in [this PR](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry.rocks/pull/209). You can see [an example in action here](https://strawberryrocks-oyzofz3nu-strawberry-graphql.vercel.app/docs/tag/84316c1ab57a5116b8f60b93f9f4ff214893570f/test#add-notes-to-code-comments).

Basically we are now able to highlight individual lines, individual words and add notes to parts of the code.

The code for the notes is a bit fragile, but for now it works. I have some ideas on how to improve it, but it would probably require using/writing a different syntax highlighter.

## Search support

I almost forgot about this, not having search on the website was something that came up during our monthly meeting. So I applied for [Algolia's doc search](https://docsearch.algolia.com) and in a couple of days we got the request approved and so I implemented it in our website. It's so fast and useful, I wish I did this a while ago!

# PR reviews

[Marcelo Trylesinski](https://github.com/Kludex) added a [PR to better document how to use Strawberry and Starlette](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1287). We already supported Starlette using our ASGI integration, but it does make sense to have a dedicated page for this!

[Michael Ossareh](https://github.com/ossareh) submitted [two](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1274) [PRs](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1281) to improve the Open Tracing support, I definitely appreciate being able to get better traces out for Strawberry!

[Guillaume Andreu Sabater](https://github.com/g-as) made a [PR to fix a typo in a docstring](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1269). Always nice to see when people take time to improve things, even if it is just a tiny typo.

[Jon Kim](https://github.com/jkimbo) made a very useful [PR to document all our extensions](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1277). We think extensions are going to make Strawberry much more flexible and powerful. Go and [check the extensions out](https://strawberry.rocks/docs/extensions)!

# Fin

I'm not doing well at doing this every week, I hope that's ok 😊

Anyway, I'm so excited about Hacktoberfest, I'm sure we'll get some nice contributions. Also can't wait to start doing some contribution to other projects myself, if I manage to make time 😊

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Written at home 😊


4 October 2021


# Monthly meeting

Every month we try to have a public meeting for [Strawberry GraphQL](https://strawberry.rocks). 

You can find [the notes about the meeting here](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/discussions/1251); this time we had more people than usual, even though not many did add their participation to the notes.

We discussed a few topics, like the [direction and goal of Strawberry](https://strawberry.rocks/docs/general/why), whether we should integrate Strawberry GraphQL Django into core or not, how we will get to v1.0 and other things, make sure you checkout [the notes here](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/discussions/1251) if you're curious and, as always, feel free to ask us any questions.

# PRs

I felt extremely tired this week, so I didn't do much work around Strawberry, I did review some PRs though:

[Bryce](https://github.com/brycebeagle) made a [PR to fix a couple of issues with Generics, LazyTypes and Enums](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1235). This has been merged and released now.

[Matt](https://github.com/Matt343) made a [PR to add support for creating interfaces from Pyndatic types](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1241). Thanks to Matt again for improving the Pydantic integration!

[Jon](https://github.com/jkimbo) made a [PR to fix an issue with optional inputs/variables](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1249)

And finally [Olesia](https://github.com/Zlira) made a [PR to raise 400 when sending a malformed query to the ASGI integration](https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry/pull/1260). This was Olesia first contribution 👏

# Fin

Hopefully next week will be better. I think I'll spend time reviewing issues, as hacktober fest is coming soon and I'd love to have "good first" issues for new contributors!

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Written at home 😴


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