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July 17, 2020

Introducing the Apollo Client Best Practices Series

If you’ve been entrusted to build something important, it’s always good to know you have resources to rely on. Maybe a team member. Maybe a book or a course. Walking into a project with a set of new tools can be pretty scary. That’s where I think best practices come in. As a part of […]

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July 17, 2020

Apollo Client & Client-side Architecture Basics

Architecture is the foundation, the skeleton, that sets your project up for success. It’s the stuff that we wish we got right from the start because making drastic architectural changes, later on, can be challenging and time-consuming. Today, we React developers have tools like Context, Hooks, Redux, and xState. We write code that deals with […]

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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 […]

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