Polling and pagination at the same time with GraphQL Apollo?

Question

To implement pagination with Apollo, you're typically going to use the fetchMore function, given to you when you send a query, in combination with updateQuery to tell Apollo how to update its cache with the result (appending it onto what you already have).
To implement near real-time syncs, you're typically going to use polling, which will resend your initial query every x seconds.

So polling refetches your initial query and will overwrite the cache, so you lose pagination and all the fetchMore stuff you added to the cache via updateQuery.

My question : How can one do polling and pagination at the same time while keeping a great user experience ? (without subscriptions)

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '20 at 16:58

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You can't. They were not intended to be used together.

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answered Jun 29 '20 at 16:58

Donovan Hiland

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Polling and pagination at the same time with GraphQL Apollo?

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