Appendix

There are a couple of topics that are not directly related to the application we built, but they are worth mentioning.

GraphQL

Having a GraphQL API is a very common thing nowadays, especially in a microservices architecture. We worked with a REST API in our application, but how would we structure our API layer if it were a GraphQL API?

Well, the implementation would be very similar. We could choose to use a different library, such as Apollo, but we will stick with React Query.

Look at the following request:

import { request, gql } from "graphql-request";
import { useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query';
const jobsQuery = gql`
     query {
          jobs {
               data {
                   &...