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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React Build scalable full-stack applications while learning to solve complex problems with GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134520
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastian Grebe Sebastian Grebe
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Preface 1. Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up GraphQL with Express.js 3. Connecting to The Database 4. Integrating React into the Back end with Apollo 5. Reusable React Components 6. Authentication with Apollo and React 7. Handling Image Uploads 8. Routing in React 9. Implementing Server-Side Rendering 10. Real-Time Subscriptions 11. Writing Tests 12. Optimizing GraphQL with Apollo Engine 13. Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and Heroku 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Apollo Client in React

The Apollo Client gives us everything that we need to send requests from our React components. We have already tested that the client works. Before moving on, we should clean up our file structure, in order to make it easier for us later in the development process. Our front end is, at the moment, still displaying posts that come from static demo data. The first step is to move over to the Apollo Client and fetch the data from our GraphQL API.

Follow the instructions below to connect your first React component with the Apollo Client:

  1. Clone the App.js file to another file, called Feed.js.
  2. Remove all parts where React Helmet is used, and rename the class Feed, instead of App.
  3. From the App.js file, remove all of the parts that we have left in the Feed class.
  4. Furthermore, we must render the Feed class inside of the App class. It should like the following...
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