Implement auto creation of children

[freiksenet]

Summary

A typical pattern in theme interfaces is to implement an implementation of this interface as a child of a source data node. It would be handy if there would be a directive that would automatically create a child for each source data node.

Basic example

interface BlogPost @nodeInterface {
  // ...
}

type MarkdownRemark implements Node {
  // ...
}

type BlogMostMarkdown implements Node, BlogPost @childOf(type: 'MarkdownRemark') @autoCreate(query: { source: "foo/" }) // query defines which types to subscribe to, follows Gatsby query {
   // ...
}

Motivation

A QoL improvement for themes.

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