Ever since React Hooks were announced, many web developers wanted to use them to fetch data in their apps with GraphQL backend.
An @apollo/react-hooks
package has been released recently with allows developers to use Apollo Client to fetch data from GraphQL endpoint using a useQuery
hook. The new API has exactly the same possibilities as the previous, render-props based one but the resulting code is much simpler and easier to follow.
In this lesson we're going to learn how to fetch data with useQuery
hook to get data about currency rates using both static and variable-based GraphQL query.