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0 pointsandrewingram8y ago0 comments

Used Relay Classic for a year and a half, been using Relay Modern for a month or so. You are absolutely right, the documentation situation is terrible. The fact that the new mutation API has practically zero documentation is troubling.

I've been sticking with it though, and I am enjoying it. I feel like I have a greater grasp of what's going to be executed and when than I ever did with Relay Classic, and the file size + performance improvements are worth the cost of admission in my mind.

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thomasfoster968y ago· 1 in thread

Have you been using normal Relay or one of the forks/modified versions that supports server-side rendering? The fact that Apollo Client supports server-side rendering out of the box was a big plus for me.

> the file size + performance improvements are worth the cost of admission in my mind.

Is this Relay Classic vs Relay Modern or Relay vs Apollo?

andrewingramOP8y ago

The libraries that support server-side rendering aren't forks, they sit alongside Relay. But yes i've been using them for well over a year without any issues. I haven't tried it with Relay Modern yet, but there are examples out there of how to do it.

Relay Modern is 20% of the size (or 5 times smaller) than Relay Classic, which (if my calculations are correct, I don't have equivalent environments set up) is just over half the size of React Apollo + Apollo Client.

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