# Install graphqxl with Homebrew

Language for creating big and scalable GraphQL server-side schemas. Version 0.40.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:graphqxl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install graphqxl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:graphqxl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.40.2
- **Source summary:** Language for creating big and scalable GraphQL server-side schemas
- **Homepage:** <https://gabotechs.github.io/graphqxl>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gabotechs/graphqxl>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- graphqxl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.40.2
## Project history and usage

GraphQXL is a language and standalone compiler that extends GraphQL schema syntax with inheritance, generics, modifiers, imports, and description templates, then emits ordinary `.graphql` files.

### Project history

Gabotechs created the public GraphQXL repository in August 2022 to address repetitive and hard-to-modularize schema-first GraphQL definitions without tying schemas to a backend language.

The project established a frequent binary release cadence beginning with v0.14.0 in September 2022 and reaching v0.40.2 in March 2024. Its official mdBook grew into the main guide for installation, compilation, and language features.

### Adoption history

GraphQXL distributes precompiled Linux and macOS binaries, a Homebrew formula, and a Node wrapper installable with npm or Yarn. This allows the same compiler to fit both system-package and JavaScript build-tool workflows.

### How it is used

Users pass a `.graphqxl` schema to `graphqxl`; the compiler writes the corresponding `.graphql` schema. The extended syntax is aimed at large schema-first services that need reusable types, imports, and language-independent code organization.

### Why package nerds care

GraphQXL is notable as a language-neutral schema preprocessor delivered as a small native executable rather than a framework plugin. Its release assets cover common Linux and macOS architectures, while node-graphqxl bridges the binary into npm-based builds.

### Timeline

- 2022: The public repository is created in August.
- 2022: v0.14.0 begins the recorded GitHub release series in September.
- 2024: v0.40.2 is released in March with six binary assets.

### Related projects

- GraphQL supplies the base schema language that GraphQXL extends and targets.
- node-graphqxl integrates the compiler with Node package and build workflows.

### Sources

- <https://gabotechs.github.io/graphqxl/>
- <https://gabotechs.github.io/graphqxl/installation.html>
- <https://gabotechs.github.io/graphqxl/usage.html>
- <https://github.com/gabotechs/graphqxl/releases>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/graphqxl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/graphqxl.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph