Subscription

When we had initially set up Apollo, we installed the required dependencies for a http client. But subscriptions is an advanced use case with websockets. We have to install more dependencies to set up subscriptions.

React Apollo Subscriptions Setup

$ yarn add subscriptions-transport-ws

Now we need to update our ApolloClient instance to point to the subscription server.

Open src/components/App.tsx and update the following imports:

githubsrc/components/App.tsx
import { InMemoryCache } from 'apollo-cache-inmemory';
- import { ApolloClient, ApolloProvider, HttpLink, InMemoryCache } from "@apollo/client";
+ import { ApolloClient, ApolloProvider, InMemoryCache } from "@apollo/client";
+ import { WebSocketLink } from "@apollo/client/link/ws";

Update the createApolloClient function to integrate WebSocketLink.

const createApolloClient = (authToken: string) => {
return new ApolloClient({
- link: new HttpLink({
+ link: new WebSocketLink({
- uri: 'https://hasura.io/learn/graphql',
+ uri: 'wss://hasura.io/learn/graphql',
+ options: {
+ reconnect: true,
+ connectionParams: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${authToken}`
}
+ }
+ }
}),
cache: new InMemoryCache(),
});
};

Note that we are replacing HttpLink with WebSocketLink and hence all GraphQL queries go through a single websocket connection. This means not just subscriptions, but also GraphQL queries and mutations also go through websockets.

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