Embracing anxiety

What Anxious does

  • Combines API requests
  • Fetches in an optimized way
  • Ensures no one query hogs all resources

Combining requests

  • Each "resource" exports a type and a way to fetch
  • Consumers call that resource with extra context
  • Understanding how resolve works is key

Fetching in an optimized way

  • By default, queries use the fields optimization
  • Anxious defaults to smaller record-sets (10 elements)
  • Since anxious is in the same local-network as the API's, it can fetch faster and slim the response

Fetching Limitations 

  • Each query is only allowed a maximum of 10 concurrent requests to limit flooding
  • We explicitly don't allow "fetch-all" or plop-type behaviors
  • Computed properties are allowed with some limitations on complexity.

How does it work?

Some PRO tips

  • Remove fields if you don't use them!
  • Try and combine as much into one query as possible
  • Use apollo's client for caching and more client-side
  • You can use features like directives for more expressive queries (@if)

Embracing anxiety

By Joel Griffith

Embracing anxiety

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