Dennis kinuthia tigawanna

react-query tips and tricks i've found usefull while working with github's graphql api

using select to insert a new value into the response

import React from 'react'
import { useQuery } from 'react-query';
import { GraphQLClient } from 'graphql-request';
import { gql } from 'graphql-tag';

useLocalStorage the custom hook

strapped this together to help save and retrieve the `user-theme` and `token` from the localstorage

was working on a react vite app and had to port it over to Next Js the ported next js app and i very quickly discovered that localStorage worked a little differently n Nextjs and i need it because that's where i was saving my personal access token and theme preferences which lead me down a rabbit hole which resulted in the following custom hook for that

working with Github's Graphql api

After working with the github rest api and experiencing some of it's limitations it's time to pick things up a bit and dive into their Graphql api

as Usual first things first we set up a tesing enviroment and github provides their own explorer which will setup the authentication headers for you under the hood , but if you prefer to use another gql explorer , just set it up like below Replace ghp_LBgN6pCeWsHcxeoJpR4ZTwUj with your personal access token

I have another article i made about react-query tips an tricks which might help explain that part . becau

Graphql mutations

using the github graphql api with react-query

we'll use follow and unfollow user mutations it takes in parmeter

input:FollowUserInput|UnfollowUserInput

which has the fields

create a .env file in the root directory

  VITE_apiKey=zahtddfrsfSyCHJYZaDa9s47oP4L7Cc
  VITE_authDomain=firebaseapp.firebaseapp.com
  VITE_databaseURL=https://firebaseapp.firebaseio.com
  VITE_projectId=firebaseapp
  VITE_storageBucket=firebaseapp.appspot.com
  VITE_messagingSenderId=200000020053535353535353535353
 VITE_appId=1:50000000080792:web:6676767676d766d7676sw6

how to completely remove MySql from linux

i had to do it after i forgot root password and the reset methods wouldn't work

run sudo su first then run

#!/usr/bin/env bash

service mysql stop
killall -KILL mysql mysqld_safe mysqld
apt-get --yes purge mysql-server mysql-client

Tips on linux vm hosting of pocketbase

- copy installer to machine

helper script

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Transfers a file from local to remote
PATH_TO_FILE=$1
IP=$2
USERNAME=$3

Getting started with marmot and pocketbase

This will work with any sqlite db since the only pocketbase specifics are the pb_data/data.db sqlite file in pocketbase

installation

the most reliable source for the latest + other versions would is repo/releases

Adding a github readme markdown to website

Add the dependancies

 npm i showdown highlight.js

npm i -D @types/showdown

	{
	"$help": "https://aka.ms/terminal-documentation",
	"$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",
	"actions":
	[
	{
	"command": "paste",
	"keys": "ctrl+v"
	},
	{