November 16, 2020

When To Use Refetch Queries in Apollo Client

One of the most common use cases front-end developers face is re-render the UI after executing a mutation and changing something in the backend. To solve this problem, a lot of developers like to use the refetchQueries API. For example, if I wanted to add a todo to a list of todos, I might pass […]

July 17, 2020

Local State Management with Reactive Variables

In Apollo Client & Client-side Architecture Basics, we learned that most client-side apps work with a couple of different types of state. When we talk about local state management, we’re referring to the pattern of attaching properties and objects that only exist on the client-side. That’s shared (global) state. shared (global) state is state that we sometimes don’t want […]

July 17, 2020

Demystifying Cache Normalization

Apollo Client provides APIs for building rich client applications by normalizing, caching, and making sense of complex GraphQL data.