Manage State in React Apps with Apollo Client and GraphQL
Instructor
Rares Matei
At the core of a good client-side GraphQL library is a cache. The cache is very important for improving the efficiency of your data retrieval and providing your users with a clean user experience.
In this course, we're going to see how Apollo's powerful cache helps easily solve complex UI problems, such as pagination, handling loading and error states, optimistic updates, and minimizing network requests.
We'll start from the basics, and look at how to make queries and mutations, but then we'll look at how the cache is behind most of Apollo's immediate benefits. We'll explore in-depth how it works, how it stores data, and how we can manually modify it manually for advanced scenarios.
Even if your backend doesn't fully support GraphQL yet, we'll look at how to write GraphQL queries in your components that retrieve local client state under the hood - or that can even make REST API calls.
Credits
Kamil Khadeyev (illustration)What you'll learn
- Explore how to handle errors elegantly and watch out for edge cases
- Understand how to store client-side state in the Apollo cache and why it's useful
- Design apps that are resilient to slow and even occasionally offline networks
Learner Reviews
- Michael Rayner2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Incredibly clear explanations. Great course to understand what GraphQL with Apollo is capable of. Thanks.
- Gil Barbara2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
It provides a quick way to learn how to use the Apollo Client.
- Niv B2 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Great course - working through realistic and very common use cases. Making it easy to follow through, even when adding polling and subscription to the app. Explains was clear and the building of the knowledge was excellent, by making look like we learn new thing and implement some feature but then presenting a problem and then show the solution. Great course!
- Learner3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
REally useful information and concise, love it.
- Luis Ruiz3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
Yo! I liked the way you explained everything and the pace of the content presented. Congrats!
- Trabe3 years agoWhat did you like about this course?
The clarity of how he explains every point about GraphQL cache.
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