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

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React Build scalable full-stack applications while learning to solve complex problems with GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134520
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastian Grebe Sebastian Grebe
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up GraphQL with Express.js 3. Connecting to The Database 4. Integrating React into the Back end with Apollo 5. Reusable React Components 6. Authentication with Apollo and React 7. Handling Image Uploads 8. Routing in React 9. Implementing Server-Side Rendering 10. Real-Time Subscriptions 11. Writing Tests 12. Optimizing GraphQL with Apollo Engine 13. Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and Heroku 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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