Using GraphQL Inside a React Native App

Arunoda Susiripala
KADIRA VOICE
Published in
1 min readDec 16, 2015
A ReactNative app getting data from Facebook’s SWAPI GraphQL demo

React Native is awesome. If you are trying to use GraphQL inside a React Native app, you can’t use Relay yet.

Therefore you had to connect to a GraphQL endpoint manually to fetch data.

But instead, you can simply use “Lokka to interact with your GraphQL server.

First, you have to create a Lokka client like this:

Then query as you need:

Clone this repo to run the above app yourself.

Hope you’ll find this useful!

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