It allows you to execute queries and mutations against a GraphQL server, and returns results as query-specific Swift types. This means you don’t have to deal with parsing JSON, or passing around dictionaries and making clients cast values to the right type manually. You also don't have to write model types yourself, because these are generated from the GraphQL definitions your UI uses. As the generated types are query-specific, you're only able to access data you actually specify as part of a query. If you don't ask for a field, you won't be able to access the corresponding property. In effect, this means you can now rely on the Swift type checker to make sure errors in data access show up at compile time. With our Xcode integration, you can conveniently work with your UI code and corresponding GraphQL definitions side by side, and it will even validate your query documents, and show errors inline.
Features
- Apollo iOS does more than simply run your queries against a GraphQL server
- It normalizes query results to construct a client-side cache of your data
- Your UI is always internally consistent, and can be kept fully up-to-date with the state on the server with the minimum number of queries required
- This project is being developed using Xcode 14 and Swift 5.7
- As the generated types are query-specific, you're only able to access data you actually specify as part of a query
- You also don't have to write model types yourself, because these are generated from the GraphQL definitions your UI uses