Hey @pbcharbon. The reason that :decimal types get serialized as a string is that Floats to not preserve precision.

decimal values to be Float as defined by the standard graphql types

Float is indeed a standard GraphQL type, but if you use :decimal in your schema you aren’t using a standard GraphQL type, you’re using a custom scalar. Custom scalars are free to serialize however they want.

Unless you’re doing math on the front end with the javascript I wouldn’t convert the strings to numbers at all. You risk losing precision.

I may be sounding repetitive, but as always Never Serialize Money As A Float! ^.^;
So a string is entirely fine, or an object of a numerator and denominator or so.

Then you need to be using a Good javascript library that handles money right (a good indicator is if it even accepts a float as input then it is ‘probably’ broken).

Er, yes this! ^.^;

I would very much consider a javascript decimal library in that case then, javascript floats will lose precision just like every other language, and this is generally very bad for money. Thanks for the kind words about the book!