This is part 4 of our Full-stack React + GraphQL tutorial series. Each part is self-contained and introduces one new, key concept, so you can either do each part separately or follow the entire series — it’s up to you!

Here are the sections we’ve covered so far:

• Part 1: The Frontend
• Part 2: The Server
• Part 3: Basic GraphQL Mutations
• Part 4: Optimistic UI (you’re here)
• Part 5: Input Types and Custom Resolvers
• Part 6: Subscriptions on the server
• Part 7: GraphQL Subscriptions on the Client
• Part 8: Pagination

In this part, we’re going to dive a little bit…

Earlier this month we launched Apollo Client 1.0, and it was super exciting: There were some great comments on the Hacker News thread, a ton of new downloads, and many new developers joined the Apollo community.

Our core idea — that managing data in your frontend should be simple — has really resonated with people. That’s what Apollo is all about. We’re working hard with the GraphQL community to make data loading and management straightforward, so you can focus on building a great app.

While Apollo Client for JavaScript is the most well-known of the Apollo projects, we also have…

Today, we are proud to announce Apollo Client 1.0, “Pink Panther”! Apollo Client is now fully featured, stable and production-ready. If you’ve been holding off on trying GraphQL or Apollo, now’s a great time to check it out.

Apollo Client is a client-side library that leverages the power of a GraphQL API to handle data fetching and management for you, so that you can spend less time plumbing data and more on building your application.

Try it now with the interactive example on our home page.

The Apollo community

I’m absolutely amazed and humbled by how far Apollo Client has come since the…

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use a simple mutation to modify data on the server and keep the state synchronized on your clients. Specifically, we’ll create a mutation that adds an item to a list.

This post is part of a tutorial series on GraphQL + React. Here are the other parts:

• Part 1 — The Front-end: declarative data fetching with GraphQL
• Part 2 — The Server: setting up a simple GraphQL server in 5 steps
• Part 3 —Mutations (you’re reading it right now)
• Part 4 — Mutations with optimistic UI and client side store updates
• Part 5…

This is the second part of our full-stack tutorial series that will walk you step by step through building an instant messaging app with React and GraphQL.

Note: Even if you haven’t seen Part 1, you can continue reading here. This tutorial is completely independent from the first part, and you don’t need any code or knowledge from Part 1 to complete Part 2!

Last week, in the first part of this series, I walked you through building a simple frontend with React and GraphQL, and showed you some of the reasons why GraphQL is becoming a pretty popular choice…

Today I have an exciting announcement: After almost a year, 2,800 commits, 100 releases, and the work of over 100 amazing contributors, we are getting ready to launch Apollo Client 1.0!

We and many others have been using Apollo Client in production for almost a year now, and we’re very happy with the current API. The transition to 1.0 means we are sticking with this API for a while, even as we continue making incremental changes.

The publication of our first release candidate marks the start of the final testing period before the official release. During this period, we want…

This tutorial uses an old version of Apollo Client, and we’re working on updating it soon. For a more up to date introduction to the new constructor API, check out this getting started guide. Most of this tutorial will be identical and can be completed with the new API.

GraphQL is a new API-definition and query language that has the potential to become the new REST. It makes it easy for UI components to declaratively fetch data without having to worry about backend implementation details. …

As Thea wrote in her announcement blog post last week, the idea for contributor week came to us when we were having our own hack week back in November. We had a lot of fun working on cool projects like the Apollo Chrome Developer Tools together, so we started contributor week to share the fun with you!

Let’s get straight to the point. Here’s what you’ll find in this post:

1. A schedule for the week
2. Instructions for contributors
3. Participating repositories

1. Contributor week schedule

Kickoff live broadcast: Tuesday Feb 7th 10:30am — 11:30am PST

Watch our Youtube live video to kick off contributor week. We’ll go over the logistics of the week, make some…