Schema caching

As your schema grows larger, the construction of the schema from raw .graphql files becomes more and more costly.

Schema caching is enabled in non-local environments by default, see config/lighthouse.php.

Deployment

Update your cache when deploying a new version of your application using the cache artisan command:

php artisan lighthouse:cache

The structure of the serialized schema can change between Lighthouse releases. In order to prevent errors, use a deployment method that atomically updates both the cache file and the dependencies, e.g. K8s.

Development

In order to speed up responses during development, change this setting to be always on:

'schema_cache' => [
    'enable' => env('LIGHTHOUSE_SCHEMA_CACHE_ENABLE', true),
],