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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

by Bruce Williams, Ben Wilson
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 11Integrating with the Frontend

Welcome to the client-side framework chapter, where you’ll learn how to connect JavaScript-based web applications to a GraphQL API—including how to take advantage of Absinthe-specific features like Phoenix channel-based subscriptions using the plug-and-play packages that are already available.

Through this chapter, we’re going to gradually step up the complexity of the front-end applications we’re integrating. We’ll start with a basic, single-file JavaScript application, then move on to the two most popular approaches to using GraphQL from JavaScript today: Relay (the original GraphQL framework) and Apollo Client.

The JavaScript ecosystem is full of choices, and we know that the choices that we’ve made ...

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