[using-subscriptions-federated-data-graph-8b2c1c116dab2dacced2c0350ef81fe1] Mandi Wise wrote a great article on how to do subscriptions with Federation back in May '21. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely worth checking out. Would love to get more feedback on this approach (which has many…

Super grateful that Mandi Wise wrote that article and published the code on Github, would have been lost without it. That being said the federation-subscription-tools repo could use some love, there’s several PRs out by the community to fix some of the errors but no active maintainer. I was really …

Hi Jake. I echo your sentiments around the work that Mandi has done around federated subscriptions. It has been a lifesaver in a project I am currently working on. I am curious if you’d like to chat about our current implementations and see if we can help each other and the greater community.

I do like the approach of handing subscriptions as a concern, but it comes with some drawbacks. For example, we use the gateway as entry point to all of our services, meaning the gateway also applies the context, handles auth concerns etc. With the subscription service as another entry point, we hav…

I approached this by building one more microservice that stands alongside/on top of gateway. It uses schema stitching and adds subscriptions. So basically my client runs queries and mutations to my gateway, and subscriptions to my subscription service. However there are many downsides of this that a…

Hi Michael, yeah I’d love to chat about our implementations. Hopefully we can help move the needle in making this a bit more seamless for everyone in the community

Hi @jakehewitt , I’ve implemented the Mandi Wise article. Would be great if we could connect to see if we could assist each other… Would you be open to connect? Let em know

Any info when subscriptions will be handled nicely by Apollo Federation?

Hi @Super_Space do you use typescript in implementing Mandi Wise article?

Hi @killjoy2013 here it is: GitHub - thespacedeck/gw-subs

Using Subscriptions with Federation

About the Community

prasek November 11, 2021, 7:06pm 2

also note related discussion in the thread on polling inside a subscription

Topic		Replies	Views
Subscription in federation 2 General federation	1	489	June 1, 2023
Subscription in Apollo Federation 2 & new router General federation , router	1	566	March 14, 2023
Centralise Federation stitching logic from subgraphs to Gateway/Router Router federation , router	0	292	July 6, 2023
Securing Apollo Federation Subgraphs: Context and Best Practices API Design, Strategy & Governance federation	0	32	January 14, 2026
Federation only working one way Schema Design federation , router	3	451	May 17, 2023

Using Subscriptions with Federation

Related topics