Custom Resolver

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A user-defined mechanism for looking up or selecting values such as modules, dependencies, fields, routes, or resources according to application-specific rules. Custom resolvers are common in dependency injection, GraphQL, imports, and config systems.

    In plain English: A custom lookup mechanism that decides how something should be found.

    Example: "The monorepo used a custom resolver so shared packages could be loaded from local source during development and from published artifacts in CI."

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