ConstSeveral tools in the Node GraphQL ecosystem are hardcoded to specially treat any template tag named "gql". For example see this prettier issue: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/4360. Using this template tag has no runtime effect beyond variable interpolation.
Convenience passthrough template tag to get the benefits of tooling for the gql template tag. This does not actually parse the input into a GraphQL DocumentNode like graphql-tag package does. It just returns the string with any variables given interpolated. Can save you a bit of performance and having to install another package.