Use GitHub GraphQL instead of REST API

[adamghill]

Instead of calling the GitHub REST API for each individual library, investigate a way to call one GraphQL API to get all of the data at once. Would probably help speed up the initial load of the page especially on local development. On prod the API calls get cached for a long time so that might not matter as much.

GQL (from SO)

query($ids: [ID!]!) {  
  nodes(ids: $ids) {
      ... on Repository {
         name
         description
         id
      }
   }
}

Variables

{
  "ids": ["R_kgDOEKCK-g"]
}

I think the global ids are required for the GQL above to work. More details: https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/guides/migrating-graphql-global-node-ids.

One open question is how to deal with the global id (it could be required in libraries.json?), but unfortunately they aren't super easily found.