Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Choosing a Framework

Absinthe subscriptions, as you’ve read about in Chapter 6, ​Going Live with Subscriptions​, use Phoenix channels (by default, at least), and that takes some specialized handling. If you’re going to support subscriptions, it’s probably a good idea to go beyond the vanilla JavaScript that we’ve been using up to this point and look at more advanced GraphQL clients and framework projects that can make your life easier.

We’ll cover two of them: Apollo Client and Relay.

Beyond JavaScript

Just as on the server, your options for client-side GraphQL aren’t strictly limited to JavaScript. We’re limiting our examples to client-side JavaScript in the book only because it’s got the widest, most active community of ...