hey guys, can I ask you something? I think I'm mis...
# prisma-whats-newr
rein
10/01/2017, 8:32 AMhey guys, can I ask you something? I think I'm missing part of the bigger picture of graphql/graphqool. Does Apollo keep its own store that I can query? For instance, I have a profile component that I pass an id, what is the simplest way to check if that id is the current user? When using redux I would just make a selector that returns a boolean, but here Im not sure.
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agartha
10/01/2017, 8:51 AMYou can easily connect Apollo to your own redux store, instead of its internal store: http://dev.apollodata.com/react/redux.html
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:05 AMso thats what I would need to do in this case?
rein
10/01/2017, 9:13 AMsave the currentUserId in my own store?
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:14 AMYes, you don't even have to connect Apollo to your own store for that actually, the Apollo store would just hold the nodes, your own store keeps track of 'application state', like the current user id.
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:15 AMso than its a matter of checking the provided id to the profile for example and compare
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:15 AMYes
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:15 AMthat sounds good, thanks a lot 🙂
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:16 AMare there any other cases that youd normally use your own redux store?
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:17 AMYes, in all cases 🙂 For example, I have a parent-child relation. User selects an item from the list, I store the selected parent in my redux state, then on the details screen, I filter the children by selected parent.
agartha
10/01/2017, 9:19 AMThe last line on the page I linked says it:
This means you can easily pass variables into your queries that come from Redux state
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:19 AMgot it, I come from a pure redux app so its kinda getting use to the fact that apollo takes over some of it, not sure yet where exactly I have to take over again
rein
10/01/2017, 9:19 AMyup
rein
10/01/2017, 9:19 AMthanks a lot 🙂
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:21 AMThe page contains a few clear examples of using the apollo store and your own store together here: http://dev.apollodata.com/react/redux.html#using-connect
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:21 AMgonna read up!
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:47 AM@agartha Can I also just use the apollo reducer in a selector?
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:51 AMwhich one?
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:52 AMthe one under the key apollo and then ROOT_QUERY for example, because that also has the current user id
rein
10/01/2017, 9:54 AMsomeone on reactiflux suggested to just add currentUserQuery again around the profile but I already use it in 2 other places. It would make for a lot of repetition
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:55 AMI think plugging into that is a bad idea. You have to make a clear seperation between application data, and application state. With reducer composition, your application state reducer should not access data in the apollo tree directly.
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rein
10/01/2017, 9:56 AMgot it
rein
10/01/2017, 9:57 AMso what would you do? Use my own redux reducer or use graphql(currentUserQuery) ...
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agartha
10/01/2017, 9:58 AMPass the currentUserId from my application state to the profile query
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rein
10/01/2017, 10:00 AMright, could you elaborate a little bit on why thats a better approach?
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agartha
10/01/2017, 10:04 AMSorry, not at this moment, I need to go. Maybe you can move this question over to https://graph.cool/forum so other users can chime in as well?
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