Relay Modern Hello World

This is a simple ejected create-react-app project with the minimal parts added to load a query with the Relay Modern release candidate. It calls a remote server that we use for a lot of example apps, the GitHunt app, which is like a clone of Product Hunt for GitHub repositories. You can get access to GraphiQL here, and the code for the server is available as well.

This example was prepared as part of an in-depth blog post about Relay Modern.

Running the app

yarn
yarn start

If you edit the query code, run the Relay Compiler:

yarn run relay
# or, to watch files and rerun
yarn run relay -- --watch

Code explanation

Here are the parts to look at:

schema.graphql

This is the schema. We need this file to be passed into the relay-compiler.

scripts/getSchema.js

This is a simple script I wrote up to introspect a remote server and save the schema in .graphql format.

package.json

Here we have added some scripts for the build process:

"relay": "relay-compiler --src ./src --schema schema.graphql",
"get-schema": "node scripts/getSchema.js"

.babelrc

We needed to install the babel-relay-plugin and add it to .babelrc:

{
  "presets": [
    "react-app"
  ],
  "plugins": [
    "relay"
  ]
}

src/generated/AppFeedQuery.graphql.js

This is the code that gets generated when you yarn run relay to run the Relay compiler. It's based on the query in App.js.

src/createRelayEnvironment.js

This file creates a Relay Environment and a Network instance that configures Relay with a function to fetch queries from the remote server.

src/App.js

This is the entirety of the application code, with the most important part being the QueryRenderer which calls Relay to inject data into the Feed component.