FarFetch vs urql

FarFetch

Modern Fetch API wrapper for simplicity. (by D-Marc1)

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farfetch.js.org

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urql

The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow. (by urql-graphql)

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urql.dev

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FarFetch		urql
	Project
-	Mentions	17
58	Stars	8,477
-	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	9.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FarFetch

Posts with mentions or reviews of FarFetch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

urql

Posts with mentions or reviews of urql. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.

Top React Data Fetching Libraries
7 projects | dev.to | 31 Mar 2023

urql (8k ⭐) -> A highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow.
Apollo Layoffs
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2022

Eh, https://github.com/urql-graphql/urql is considered the improved re-architected project that doesn't contain the legacy baggage from the beginning of GraphQL like Apollo does.
React Real Time Messaging With GraphQL
3 projects | dev.to | 23 Oct 2022

urql docs
SvelteKit Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with @urql/svelte
1 project | dev.to | 15 Oct 2022

Even though I think this solution is not too bad, I wish @urql/svelte would implement a better way to handle SSR with sveltekit. I posted a question on the urql GitHub discussions board, but I have not gotten any response yet.
Conditionally rendering
2 projects | /r/reactjs | 3 Aug 2022
End-to-end GraphQL error handling?
3 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2022

I want to share my approach to handling errors in GraphQL resolvers (I use GraphQL Yoga on the server-side) and pass them to the frontend side (where I use Svelte + @urql/svelte).
Svelte GraphQL Resources
3 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2022

Repository
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11 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2022

API client: urql
gQuery 101 – A Svelte Kit Focused GraphQL Library
1 project | /r/sveltejs | 19 Jan 2022

big thread on it here https://github.com/FormidableLabs/urql/issues/1819
If every component made it's own API call to get the data, would that be an overkill for the server?
3 projects | /r/reactjs | 8 Jan 2022

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "way"

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FarFetch and urql you can also consider the following projects:

Optic - OpenAPI linting, diffing and testing. Optic helps prevent breaking changes, publish accurate documentation and improve the design of your APIs.

react-query - 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]

swrv - Stale-while-revalidate data fetching for Vue

apollo-client - :rocket: A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.

Swagger Client - Javascript library to connect to swagger-enabled APIs via browser or nodejs

apollo - 🚀 Apollo/GraphQL integration for VueJS

SWR - React Hooks for Data Fetching

Bearer

graphql-request - Minimal GraphQL client

react-relay - Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.