GraphQL redirect when resolver throws error

Here's how I implemented this.

On the server side:

// Setup
export default class UnauthorizedError extends Error {
  constructor({statusCode = 401, url}) {
    super('Unauthorized request to ' + url);
    this.statusCode = statusCode;
  }
}

// In a resolver
throw new UnauthorizedError({url});

// Setup of the request handler
graphqlExpress(async (req, res) => ({
  schema: ...,
  formatError(error) {
    if (error.originalError instanceof UnauthorizedError) {
      res.status(error.originalError.statusCode);
      res.set('Location', 'http://domain.tld/login');
    } else {
      res.status(500);
    }

    return error;
  },
});

On the client side:

const networkInterface = createNetworkInterface();

networkInterface.useAfter([{
  applyAfterware({response}, next) {
    if ([401, 403].includes(response.status)) {
      document.location = response.headers.get('Location');
    } else {
      next();
    }
  }
}]);

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In Apollo Client 2.0, you can probably use apollo-link-error on the client side for this.