flexible-presenter VS apollo

We use “presenters” as a final step to clean up data formats and get things ready for Vue. https://github.com/fourstacks/flexible-presenter

I don’t know enough about writing APIs to tell you if this would work, but we use https://github.com/AdditionApps/flexible-presenter very successfully. It has ‘preset’s which are subsets of the available fields - so where I’m displaying just user name and need their id for routing i can call the presenter with ->preset(‘listing’) to only get those fields.

There is a "Presenter" pattern for Inertia that can flatten, format or cast to arrays as part of sending your data from the back-end Controllers to the front-end Vue pages: https://github.com/AdditionApps/flexible-presenter But don't over think it. Vue can handle most of your objects, arrays and variables straight out of the controller as props. We've found that when using Inertia it's best to think of Vue as a modern form of Blade so just send the simplest props you can and do the work in the controller.

Is this what apollo-components is all about? https://github.com/vuejs/apollo Bulletproof is based on a REST API, so if GraphQL is the backend, this would be a great choice!

If you're set on using both Nuxt 3 and Vue Apollo, I'd recommend not using the Nuxt Apollo module, and instead integrating Vue Apollo directly: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-apollo

Cool, if you do go with graphql, I'd recommend vue-apollo on the client end. Combine with @vue/apollo-composable and graphql-codegen and it feels like sorcery.

Frontend is vuejs 2 that was scaffolded with vue-clu and is a CRUD site for the backend. I planned on using vue-apollo for the frontend to easily connect to graphql backend, I was especially excited to learn that vue-apollo handles most of the state and caching and decided to try it instead of vuex for state. I've hit a couple snags though and am beginning to think that vue-apollo isn't the right way to approach this (plus their documentation leaves much to be desired). Here's where I'm at:

You might have heard lots of buzz around GraphQL, and if you are interested in integrating it with Vue.js, then I would like to suggest you try Vue Apollo. The library makes use of Vue in the combination of GraphQL/Apollo for a smooth as well as a pleasant experience. To get startedClick here

I'm learning GraphQL and every tutorial/vid I look at in relation to using Apollo with Vue seems to involve this other package, graphql-tag. But no one ever seems to explain why it's needed, and it's not listed as a dependency of Vue Apollo. So can anyone tell me precisely why graphql-tag is needed, and whether Apollo can work with Vue without it? Essentially, is it required (and if so why isn't it listed as an Apollo dependency?) or optional?