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# Next.js
- Does all of the tooling for you under the hood (webpack compiling, code-splitting)
- Server side rendering (instant rendering, pre-loading)
- getInitialProps lifecycle method allows you to wait on async data to resolve before the page is shipped to the browser
- does routing for you, nice because you just have to make pages
# GraphQL
- one endpoint you can hit for any query
- strongly typed
- you get the benefit of tools being able to analyze your code and provide to you a whole bunch of documentation.
# Apollo
- apollo does all the data management stuff that a redux store would do, plus:
- fetching of data from server side
- pushing of data to your mutations
- do caching
- it helps manage local state
- gives you error and loading UI states (never have to set flags, never have to manually catch errors)
- (gold standard for working with GraphQL in React)
cd into backend and frontend directories and npm install.
$ npm run devStack & set-up: Wes Bos Advanced React If you want a better understanding of this stack I highly recommend this course!
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