Implementing chats and messages
In the previous chapter, we programmed a pretty dynamic way of creating chats and messages with your friends and colleagues, either one-on-one or in a group. There are some things that we have not discussed yet, such as authentication, real-time subscriptions, and friend relationships. First, however, we are going to work on our new skills, using React with Apollo Client to send GraphQL requests. It is a complicated task, so let's get started.
Fetching and displaying chats
Our news feed is working as we expected. Now, we also want to cover chats. As with our feed, we need to query for every chat that the current user (or, in our case, the first user) is associated with.
The initial step is to get the rendering working with some demo chats. Instead of writing the data on our own, as we did in the first chapter, we can now execute the chats query. Then, we can copy the result into the new file as static demo data, before executing the actual...
