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Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React Taking React from frontend to full-stack with GraphQL and Apollo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077880
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sebastian Grebe Sebastian Grebe
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Building the Stack
2. Chapter 1: Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up GraphQL with Express.js 4. Chapter 3: Connecting to the Database 5. Section 2: Building the Application
6. Chapter 4: Hooking Apollo into React 7. Chapter 5: Reusable React Components and React Hooks 8. Chapter 6: Authentication with Apollo and React 9. Chapter 7: Handling Image Uploads 10. Chapter 8: Routing in React 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Server-Side Rendering 12. Chapter 10: Real-Time Subscriptions 13. Chapter 11: Writing Tests for React and Node.js 14. Section 3: Preparing for Deployment
15. Chapter 12: Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and AWS 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Apollo Client in React

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, to make it easier for us later in the development process. Our frontend is still displaying posts that come from static demo data. The first step is to move over to Apollo Client and fetch the data from our GraphQL API.

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

  1. Clone the App.js file to another file, called Feed.js.
  2. Remove all parts where React Helmet is used, remove the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) import, and rename the function Feed instead of App.
  3. From the App.js file, remove all of the parts that we have left in the Feed component.
  4. Furthermore, we must render the Feed component inside of the App component. It should look like this:
    import React from 'react';
    import { Helmet } from &apos...
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