Strawberry Shakev12
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Persisted Queries

This guide will walk you through how persisted queries work and how you can set them up with Strawberry Shake.

How it works

Persisted queries is a feature that Facebook uses internally for a long time to improve the performance of Facebook with their relay client.

During development you can write and edit the queries in your application. When you start and debug your application it will use these queries to interact with the GraphQL server.

Generated ClientGraphQL ServerRequest: { "query": "{ foo { bar } }" "variables": "..." }1Response: { "data": { "foo": { ... } } }2Generated ClientGraphQL Server

Once you package your client application however the GraphQL queries are compiled, removed from the client code and exported into a query directory.

The query directory can then be uploaded to your GraphQL server. Whenever the client wants to send a GraphQL request to the server it will insert into that request the hash of the extracted GraphQL query instead of the GraphQL query itself.

Generated ClientGraphQL ServerRequest: { "id": "abc" "variables": "..." }1Response: { "data": { "foo": { ... } } }2Generated ClientGraphQL Server

Setup

In the following tutorial, we will walk you through creating a Strawberry Shake GraphQL client and configuring it to support persisted queries.

Step 1: Create a console project