Suppress GraphQL: Syntax Error in VS Code when using template string - graphql

Question

FYI: There are a ton of other posts concerning GraphQL Syntax Error in VS Code. I read many of them, but did not find anything relevant to this. My apologies if I missed it in the similar questions.
Environment:
VS Code v.1.51.1
Windows 10 x64 19041
https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling v.1.17.0
React Typescript Application
I have a component that uses the useQuery hook. The query is retrieved from another query and comes in via a variable typed as string In order for the useQuery to correctly use the graphql query, it has first has to be made into a DocumentNode for which I use gql from graphql-tag npm package. The resulting code snippet looks like:
...
const PREPARED_QUERY = useMemo(() => gql`${query}`, [query])
const data = useQuery(PREPARED_QUERY, queryOptions)
...
This is working code, but the Apollo GraphQL extension throws a warning on this line:
Syntax Error: Unexpected <EOF>.GraphQL: Syntax
I understand this is because it is checking the query string to ensure that it is properly formatted and it does not understand the template string "hack".
Questions:
Can this be silences with some form of ignore comment?
If not, Is there any way to form this to make this template string pass the syntax check?

Answer 1

Looks like a known issue with the vscode extension - without a known solution :) https://github.com/graphql/vscode-graphql/issues/137 .
Workaround
Since gql is just a function, you can call it directly, so that the extension won't try to parse it and stop complaining.
gql(query)
Explanation on why it works
If we take a look at tagged templates docs, we'll see that it's a regular function that takes the array of static string pieces as the first argument, and interpolated expressions as the remaining arguments.
So when we do
gql`some content`
it translates to the following function call:
gql(["some content"]) // a single argument, because there is no interpolations here
Also this gql function has special code inside that allows to pass a plain string as the first arg (probably to support old JS where no template tags existed)