Composing monday.com GraphQL queries without double-escaping headaches. Compose the GraphQL query with variables instead of string interpolation. Use when hitting this exact issue. Not for unrelated errors or different features.
TL;DR
Compose the GraphQL query with variables instead of string interpolation. Variables keep the query static and move the values into a variables object, which sidesteps the double-escaping problem entirely and makes dynamic queries far easier to read.
Fix
Compose the GraphQL query with variables instead of string interpolation. Expected: You get the expected result; the problem is gone.
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Composing monday.com GraphQL queries without double-escaping headaches
Why it happens
Stack Overflow question: building a framework around the monday.com API, the raw mutation string requires painful double-escaping of quotes inside JSON.
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