Next.js graphql-request example

graphql-client.ts

import { GraphQLClient } from 'graphql-request';

type RequestCache =
  | 'default'
  | 'no-store'
  | 'reload'
  | 'no-cache'
  | 'force-cache'
  | 'only-if-cached';

type Options = {
  cache?: RequestCache;
  revalidate?: number;
};

export const graphqlClient = (options: Options = {}): GraphQLClient => {
  const { cache = 'default', revalidate } = options;

  return new GraphQLClient('http://localhost:4000/graphql', {
    fetch: (input: RequestInfo | URL, init?: RequestInit) => {
      return fetch(input, { ...init, next: { revalidate: revalidate } });
    },

    cache: cache,
  });
};

MyComponent.tsx

import { cache } from 'react';
import { graphqlClient } from "lib/graphql-client";

export const myFetch = cache(async () => {
  const { myDocument } = await graphqlClient().request(myDocument, {});
});

But there is some things I can't get (sorry). For Apollo you pass fetch options during client initializations.. meanwhile Next now using it on query-level to determine if page/component is static/dynamic or need revalidation etc. So I don't see a way to combine it.

I think you would need to use a page-level API instead, there are ways to force the page to be dynamic or not. You would use a "normal" fetch. We will need to study the internals of Next.js a bit more to understand what this "fetch" thing is a bout and how it translates to GraphQL, I don't think there is an immediate answer, you need to reproduce Next.js features here more than just "using" them.

So it's basically what I am doing here - caching on nextjs level but totally ignoring graphql node-level cache. It works fine and actually generating static pages or dynamic queries based on cache/revalidate param.

Also regarding node-level caching (something like what apollo/urql offers) - I don't think there a way to add something into request/response cycle on Next.js currently (something like entry.server.ts in remix).

So really what I posted is just what remix-graphql you liked doing (it does not support graphql caching as well).

Makes sense and it should works perfect, especially if you manage to keep requests at page-level.

Speaking of Remix, it reminds me a bit of this article: https://sergiodxa.com/articles/dependency-injection-in-remix-loaders-and-actions

This article shows how you can pass objects in Remix to inject a database connection to loaders, you end up with a "context" object in the action arguments.

In Next 13 this would translate to a "context" props for pages.

I expect Next.js to bring an API somehow like a server context builder, as you do in Apollo server for instance to build the GraphQL context. Processing a GraphQL request server-side is actually a problem very close to parsing the React tree to trigger "useQuery" in each component.

Database connection is actually a bad example because it's shared between all requests, but in this example nothing prevents the developer to also generate and inject request specific objects.