Throughout this tutorial, we’ll see by example how to consume and fetch a GraphQL API with React Hooks and Apollo Client.

We’ll particularly see how to use the useQuery hook to send GraphQL queries to the server and the gql tag to write GraphQL queries.

The GraphQL API is hosted in this link and provides information about Pokémons.

These are the steps of this tutorial:

• Step 1 - Setup
• Step 2 - Initializing a New React Project
• Step 3 - Setting up The Apollo Client
• Step 4 - Initializing the Apollo Client with The In-Memory Cache and HTTP Link
• Step 5 - Linking the Apollo Client to React Component(s)
• Step 6 - Sending GraphQL Queries & Consuming the API
• Step 7 - Building the React Application

Before we can start, we’ll need to have a few things.

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