GraphQL, Node, Apollo and React (Social Media Demo Project) –  Part 2

In this article, I’ll present the UI part of the Social Media demo project we started exploring last time. In the previous post, you dug into the GraphQL API and how to send queries via the Apollo Playground. Now it’s time to bring it all together and see how the React front-end integrates with the API using Apollo Client.

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GraphQL, Node, Apollo and React (Social Media Demo Project) –  Part 1

It can’t go unnoticed that GraphQL is being adopted by plenty of reputable companies like Facebook, Shopify, Twitter, and many more. For quite some time, I hadn’t had the chance to explore it and understand what it brings to the table. Still, probably like many of you, I’ve read some isolated references here and there, gaining intuition about what kind of API design pain points GraphQL is meant to solve. So I decided to spend some time learning GraphQL, its

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