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Leonid Rezvitsky
Leonid Rezvitsky

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Apollo and Vuejs for Vitejs

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Apollo and Vuejs for Vitejs

Background

Hey! For me, it was necessary to use apollo-client with Vite 2. And while there are no clean libraries that will work only with Vuejs, then we will manage with what we have. The Apollo team wrote a client only for react and therefore we have to mess things up from: @apollo/client/core

Start 🚀

First, we need to install the @apollo/client package. This can be done with the command below:

npm i @apollo/client // OR yarn add @apollo/client
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Then I started setting up the configuration to work with the backend.

// src/apollo/client.js import { ApolloClient, HttpLink } from '@apollo/client/core' import { InMemoryCache } from '@apollo/client/cache' const httpLink = new HttpLink({ uri: import.meta.env.VITE_API_URL }) const apolloClient = new ApolloClient({ link: httpLink, cache: new InMemoryCache() }) export default apolloClient
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We can now import apollo.js into the Vuejs component

// src/components/ApolloHello.vue <script setup> import apolloClient from '../apollo/client.js' import { EXCHANGE_RATES } from '../graphql' const { data: { rates } } = await apolloClient.query({ query: EXCHANGE_RATES }) console.log(rates) </script>
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You also need to make changes to vite.config.js

{ ... optimizeDeps: { include: [ '@apollo/client/core', '@apollo/client/cache' ] }, rollupInputOptions: { external: ['react'] } ... }
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What's next?

We can now use @apollo/client along with Vuejs. To try this stack, you can clone the repository

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David Y Soards •

This is nice. Much simpler than any other setup I've found.

I did have to yarn add graphql to get it working though.

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Leonid Rezvitsky •

At the moment there is vue-apollo (v4.apollo.vuejs.org/). It can be safely used in vitejs.