Discover how to overcome skepticism and embrace Relay in this 26-minute conference talk from React Summit Remote Edition 2020. Learn about the challenges of GraphQL integration and API data fetching as applications scale, and explore how Relay's opinionated approach solves common problems. Through hands-on demos, compare solutions with and without Relay, gaining insights into its core features and design goals. Delve into topics such as query composition, fragments, isolation, modularity, and pagination. Understand how Relay enhances developer productivity and happiness while serving as a high-performance GraphQL client. By the end of this talk, gain a comprehensive understanding of Relay's benefits and practical applications in React development.
How I Went from Being Skeptical about Relay to Falling in Love with It
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Overview
Syllabus
Intro
One query per component
A terrible idea
One gigantic query
Fragments
Isolation and modularity
Variables in fragments
Updating fragments
pagination
Running a fragment by itself
Summary
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