Wrapping Up

Through this chapter, you’ve discovered how to integrate a client-side application—vanilla, Apollo, or Relay—with an Absinthe-based GraphQL API, and you’ve learned about some of the framework-specific features that are available. The instructions here are mostly just illustrative; new client-side frameworks, tools, and even languages are constantly changing, and a lot of factors are involved in your choice of the right UI and GraphQL technologies for your team.

As a GraphQL server implementation, Absinthe can work with anything that talks GraphQL; just keep an eye on the project documentation[48] to see if there’s been any specialized support added to make integrating with your technology of choice even easier.

Whether ...

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