GraphQL is a powerful solution for working with data, but it often gets a bad rap for being too complicated to set up and use.

How to send a GraphQL query with Fetch

Under the hood, GraphQL works by sending HTTP requests to an endpoint. This means that there’s nothing magical about sending a GraphQL request — we can use built-in browser APIs to send them!

First, let’s look at the component parts of a GraphQL query:

  1. The query itself
  2. Any query variables

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Send GraphQL Queries With the Fetch API (Without Apollo, URQL)
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