Just started doing the apollo-react tutorial. getting stuck at 7/10 (More Mutations and Updating the Store). I’m at the point where I need to update my schema so I can work on the voting feature but when I try and push the new schema I get the following error in my console:

You are adding a required relation to 'User' but there are already items. (Request ID: cj57h1l8a71sl0181k38zlcjx)

Can anyone explain what the error means?

@joshpitzalis Exactly that, there are existing nodes for that Type, so you cannot add a required relationship to that Type

Thanks for getting back to me so soon. I don’t understand how to make things optional yet. I’ll look into the docs, thanks. It works fine in the tutorial though. What am I missing?

Could you paste the link to the tutorial?

sure, around the 2:10 mark https://www.howtographql.com/react-apollo/6-more-mutations-and-updating-the-store/

I suspect this to be a bug, if you can get the same result in the console without errors. But maybe tomorrow @nilan can chime in, to be sure.

I managed to move forward so problem solved for now. Thank you very much.

hey @joshpitzalis which relation did you try to add to your project?

@nilan Not sure, I created the vote type and added both votes relations in one go, and then tried to push as the tutorial directed.

ok thanks for the info 🙂 glad you got it working in the end!