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

By : Sebastian Grebe
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Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React.

By: Sebastian Grebe

Overview of this book

React, one of the most widely used JavaScript frameworks, allows developers to build fast and scalable front end applications for any use case. GraphQL is the modern way of querying an API. It represents an alternative to REST and is the next evolution in web development. Combining these two revolutionary technologies will give you a future-proof and scalable stack you can start building your business around. This book will guide you in implementing applications by using React, Apollo, Node.js and SQL. We'll focus on solving complex problems with GraphQL, such as abstracting multi-table database architectures and handling image uploads. Our client, and server will be powered by Apollo. Finally we will go ahead and build a complete Graphbook. While building the app, we'll cover the tricky parts of connecting React to the back end, and maintaining and synchronizing state. We'll learn all about querying data and authenticating users. We'll write test cases to verify the front end and back end functionality for our application and cover deployment. By the end of the book, you will be proficient in using GraphQL and React for your full-stack development requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Mutations with the Apollo Client

We have replaced the way that we get the data in our client. The next step is to switch the way that we create new posts, too. Before Apollo Client, we had to add the new fake posts to the array of demo posts manually, within the memory of the browser. Now, everything in our text area is sent with the addPost mutation to our GraphQL API, through Apollo Client.

As with GraphQL queries, there is a Mutation component that we are going to use. We are also going to compare it to the HoC method. To keep up the comparisons between them, we will start with the HoC method. Both approaches are valid ways to do this; there is nothing that is vastly different between them behind the scenes.

Let's start with the higher-order component approach.

The Apollo Mutation...