We have replaced the way that we get the data in our client. The next step is to switch the way that we create new posts, too. Before Apollo Client, we had to add the new fake posts to the array of demo posts manually, within the memory of the browser. Now, everything in our text area is sent with the addPost mutation to our GraphQL API, through Apollo Client.
As with GraphQL queries, there is a Mutation component that we are going to use. We are also going to compare it to the HoC method. To keep up the comparisons between them, we will start with the HoC method. Both approaches are valid ways to do this; there is nothing that is vastly different between them behind the scenes.
Let's start with the higher-order component approach.
