GraphQL Bigint

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The problem

The GraphQL spec limits its Int type to 32-bits. Maybe you've seen this error before:

``
GraphQLError: Argument "num" has invalid value 9007199254740990.
Expected type "Int", found 9007199254740990.
`

Why? 64-bits would be too large for JavaScript's 53-bit limit.
According to Lee Byron, a 52-bit integer spec would have been "too weird" see this issue.
The spec therefore has 32-bit integers to ensure portability to languages that can't represent 64-bit integers.
However, if you don't care about that, and you just want to use JavaScript's _special_ 53-bit integers, you can use this scalar type instead!

Usage

`shell
$ npm install graphql-type-bigint
`

Use it the same as any other scalar type, either input or output.

`js
const Bigint = require('graphql-type-bigint');

const SomeType = new GraphQLObjectType({
name: 'SomeType',
fields: {
numberField: {
type: Bigint,
// this would throw an error with the GraphQLInt
resolve: () => Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
},
},
});
``