React Native: Awesome Offline Apps with GraphQL

Mobile apps, unlike the web, are expected to be functional in offline mode. When we build hybrid apps using React Native, we can't afford to show empty or loading states in many scenarios. Pre-fetched data should be available to give a native like an experience. AsyncStorage is one of the existing solutions to handle such issues.

This works fine for small apps/side projects. When it comes to production apps, handling complex data in key-value pairs is really a pain. GraphQL comes into the picture at this point. GraphQL cache system is beautiful magic and at Omio, we leveraged the usage of GraphQL cache to handle offline data for hybrid mobile apps created using React Native.

Vorkenntnisse

Basic idea about React Native and GraphQL

Lernziele

This talk will enable the audience to have a fair understanding of building gffline hybrid apps