gqless: A GraphQL Client That Skips the Query Writing

gqless takes a novel approach to GraphQL: you build your templates as if the data were already there, and the tool generates the underlying query for you. No hand-written query strings, no manual data plumbing.

The concept echoes how Perch CMS works. Perch doesn't ask you to model data upfront — you create page templates, and the CMS figures out the data-entry UI from what those templates need.

An intriguing idea in a space where the typical workflow — write a query, shape it, map it to your UI — has long felt acceptable, if not always elegant.