Relay Docs

Relay is a powerful GraphQL client for React. It embodies years of learning to give you outstanding performance by default while keeping your code scalable and maintainable.

Relay brings the composability of React components to data fetching. Each component declares its own data needs, and Relay combines them into efficient pre-loadable queries. Every aspect of its design is to make the natural way of writing components also the most performant.

Features

• Declarative: Just declare what data each component needs and Relay will handle generating optimal queries for each surface.
• Composable: Components act like building bricks that can click into place anywhere in your app without needing manually update queries.
• Pre-fetchable: Relay's generated queries allow you to start fetching data for your surface before your code even downloads or runs.
• Built-in UI patterns: Relay implements loading states, pagination, refetching, optimistic updates, rollbacks, and other common UI behaviors that are tricky to get right.
• Consistent state: Relay maintains a normalized data store, so components that observe the same data stay in sync even if they reach it by different queries.
• Type safe: Relay generates TypeScript types for each GraphQL snippet so that errors are caught statically, not at runtime.
• Streaming/deferred data: Declaratively defer parts of your query and Relay will progressively re-render your UI as the data streams in.
• Developer experience: Relay's editor support provides autocompletion and go-to-definition for your GraphQL schema.