[barakm]

I've been looking forward to this! One question; it appears as though the types and schema are passed with every request (eg https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/src/graphq... ) -- I assume part of the reason for this is versioning/sharing the schema, but is it always external, does the server ever know the schema a priori -- what's the thinking around this design decision?

(It's a plausible idea! I'm just curious on the what and why)

[leebyron]

Perhaps that code is a bit misleading. The schema itself is defined and provided by the server. The idea being that a server would build up it's type definitions, and then call into graphql's executor providing both the schema the server defined (in code) as well as the query the client provided (as a network request)

[dschafer]

It's passed to that function in the reference implementation, but a server would probably create a helper function that runs a query for a particular schema. For example, you can just pass a query to Facebook's GraphQL endpoint (without specifying a schema), and it will run the query on the Facebook schema.

[barakm]

This is also reasonable; but an example of how schema get created and discovered by a client would be a nice extension to the spec. :)