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Next.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Next.js Quick Start Guide Server-side rendering done right

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993661
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kirill Konshin Kirill Konshin
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Preface 1. Introduction to Server-Side Rendering and Next.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Next.js fundamentals 3. Next.js Configuration 4. Next.js Data Flow 5. Application Life Cycle Handlers and Business Logic 6. Continuous Integration 7. Containers 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using GraphQL with Next.js to fetch data

In this chapter, we will learn how to use basic GraphQL with the Relay framework. But first, let's briefly talk about why GraphQL was introduced and what issues it solves.

When dealing with REST APIs, it is quite common to make some subsequent requests, for example, to get some entities and then for those entities get more sub-entities. By definition, REST endpoints should only provide one type of entity, and any thing else should be fetched from other endpoints, either by following HATEOAS links or by manually creating sub-requests. This increases the amount of network traffic, which forces all clients to re-implement logic for which sub-entities should be fetched and how, and badly affects the overall user interface. Of course, we can break the rules and put nested entities right there inside the API endpoint, but what if we have...

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