[scottwick]

A frontend application that I work on has each component making separate tiny GraphQL queries to render just what it needs. The result is often 5-10+ GraphQL requests to render a single page. Is this a common practice?

It seems like a lot of overhead to me since the backend has to perform some redundant queries (i.e. fetch and authorize the user, etc.) in order to serve each of those requests. I had thought one of the main selling points of GraphQL was that the frontend could make a single API request and have everything it needs to render the entire page. Any thoughts?

[wes-k]

Use Apollo, it can stitch all those queries together into one deduped query. It’s awesome!

[scottwick]

Could you point me to some documentation about this? Is this something that's built in to Apollo? Or just that Apollo enables building this sort of architecture more easily?