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The Apollo Handbook

A guide for building a production-quality React and GraphQL application.

This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2022-01-02
Ryan Bigg

A short guide to building a production-quality React and GraphQL application, using TypeScript and Apollo.

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This book is about how we can approach building a frontend application using a combination of React, Next.JS, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo, and GraphQL Code Generator. These tools are a winning combination for a frontend stack, and I'll be demonstrating how to use them within these pages.

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Ryan Bigg

Ryan has been writing books and documentation for programming languages for over a decade. These books have sold over 20,000 copies worldwide.

Ryan lives in the lovely coastal town of Warrnambool, Australia.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Who is this book for?
  2. What is this book about?
  3. Acknowledgements

Introducing Apollo Client

  1. The index file
  2. The Books component
  3. Setting up Apollo Client
  4. Introducing GraphQL to the books component

Automatically generated types

  1. Generating client-side types

Lazy queries

  1. Getting lazy

Union types

  1. What’s a union type?
  2. Querying for users
  3. Rendering the user profile components
  4. Summary

Creating with mutations

  1. Setting up a local GraphQL server
  2. Client, meet server
  3. The new book form
  4. Using the createBook mutation
  5. Validating form data
  6. Summary

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