August 2019 Summaries

GraphQL Summit 2019 is a world's largest conference dedicated to GraphQL, featuring over 60 technical talks across 3 tracks. The event will take place in San Francisco on October 30 and 31, with a lineup of great talks including Scaling GraphQL Beyond a Backend for Frontend, How do you get changes made to GraphQL?, Caching & GraphQL: Setting the Story Straight, State Management in GraphQL using React Hooks & Apollo, and more. Discounted tickets are available until they sell out, as well as several new scholarship programs aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion. The conference will also feature activities such as Apollo office hours, training bootcamps, and a Halloween party, with sponsorship opportunities available for those interested in reaching the growing GraphQL community.

Hugh Willson from the Apollo team is thrilled to announce that Apollo Client now supports React Hooks, which are a new way to write stateful components while avoiding classes. The three hooks available are `useQuery`, `useMutation`, and `useSubscription`. These hooks offer advantages over previous APIs, such as reduced bundle size and less boilerplate code. To get started with hooks, users can install the `@apollo/react-hooks` package after setting up their Apollo Client instance. Existing Apollo projects can be migrated to hooks by reading the migration guide. The new hooks make fetching data more straightforward and reduce unnecessary data management code, making components easier to reason about. Additionally, hooks support multiple mutations in a single component without nesting issues, and they improve TypeScript support for Apollo Client. This release also includes lazy evaluation for queries and new API documentation that emphasizes hooks as the recommended path for newcomers. The Apollo team thanks the community for their help in developing the Apollo hooks API.