@apollo/client-integration-react-router

This package provides integrations between Apollo Client and React Router 7 to support modern streaming SSR.

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Setup

Install dependencies:

npm i @apollo/client-integration-react-router @apollo/client graphql

Create an app/apollo.ts with that exports a makeClient function and an apolloLoader created with createApolloLoaderHandler:

import { ApolloLink, HttpLink, InMemoryCache } from "@apollo/client";
import {
  createApolloLoaderHandler,
  ApolloClient,
} from "@apollo/client-integration-react-router";

// `request` will be available on the server during SSR or in loaders, but not in the browser
export const makeClient = (request?: Request) => {
  return new ApolloClient({
    cache: new InMemoryCache(),
    link: new HttpLink({ uri: "https://your.graphql.api" }),
  });
};
export const apolloLoader = createApolloLoaderHandler(makeClient);

[!IMPORTANT]
ApolloClient needs to be imported from @apollo/client-integration-react-router, not from @apollo/client.

Run yarn react-router reveal. This will create the files app/entry.client.tsx and app/entry.server.tsx.

Adjust app/entry.client.tsx:

+import { makeClient } from "./apollo";
+import { ApolloProvider } from "@apollo/client";

startTransition(() => {
+ const client = makeClient();
  hydrateRoot(
  document,
  <StrictMode>
+    <ApolloProvider client={client}>
       <HydratedRouter />
+    </ApolloProvider>
  </StrictMode>
  );
});

Adjust app/entry.server.tsx:

+import { makeClient } from "./apollo";
+import { ApolloProvider } from "@apollo/client";

export default function handleRequest(
  // ...
) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
  // ...
+ const client = makeClient(request);
  const { pipe, abort } = renderToPipeableStream(
+   <ApolloProvider client={client}>
      <ServerRouter
        context={routerContext}
        url={request.url}
        abortDelay={ABORT_DELAY}
      />,
+   </ApolloProvider>,
    {
      [readyOption]() {
        shellRendered = true;

Add <ApolloHydrationHelper> to app/root.tsx

+ import { ApolloHydrationHelper } from "@apollo/client-integration-react-router";

export function Layout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      // ...
      <body>
-        {children}
+        <ApolloHydrationHelper>{children}</ApolloHydrationHelper>
        <ScrollRestoration />
        <Scripts />
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Usage

Using apolloLoader with useReadQuery

You can now use the apolloLoader function to create Apollo-enabled loaders:

export const loader = apolloLoader<Route.LoaderArgs>()(({ preloadQuery }) => {
  const myQueryRef = preloadQuery(MY_QUERY, {
    variables: { someVariable: 1 },
  });
  return {
    myQueryRef,
  };
});

[!IMPORTANT]
To provide you with better TypeScript support, this is a method that you need to call twice: apolloLoader<LoaderArgs>()(loader)

Then you can consume this myQueryRef object with useReadQuery in your component:

export default function Home() {
  const { myQueryRef } = useLoaderData<typeof loader>();

  const { data } = useReadQuery(myQueryRef);

  return (
    <div> do something with `data` here </div>
  )