villus

Villus is a finger-like structures in the small intestine. They help to absorb digested food.

A small and fast GraphQL client for Vue.js.

This is forked from my previous work at vue-gql before they decide to go for a different direction with this library.

Features

📦 Minimal: Its all you need to query GQL APIs.
🦐 Tiny: Very small footprint.
🗄 Caching: Simple and convenient query caching by default.
💪 TypeScript: Written in Typescript.
💚 Minimal Vue.js Components.
🖇 Composition API support.

It is Vue 3.0-ready!

Why use this

GraphQL is just a simple HTTP request. This library is meant to serve a tiny client without all the bells and whistles attached to Apollo and its ecosystem, it offers simple strategies to cache and batch your GraphQL requests.

If you are looking for a more full-featured client use vue-apollo, it has everything you need.

You can read more about it in the announcement post.

Documentation

You can find the full documentation here

Quick Start

First install villus:

yarn add villus@next graphql

# or npm

npm install villus@next graphql --save

If you are using Vue 2 with the @vue/composition-api don't use the next tag.

You can now use it with either the new Vue composition API or higher order components:

Composition API

Configure the GraphQL client for your root component:

import { useClient } from 'villus';

export default {
  name: 'App',
  setup() {
    useClient({
      url: 'http://localhost:3002/graphql'
    });
  }
};

Then you can use useQuery in any child component:

<template>
  <div>
    <div v-if="data">
      <pre>{{ data }}</pre>
    </div>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import { useQuery } from 'villus';

export default {
  setup() {
    const { data } = useQuery({
      query: '{ posts { title } }'
    });

    return { data };
  }
};
</script>

There is also the higher-order component flavor if you prefer to use them instead. Check the docs for more examples and details.

You can do a lot more than that, villus makes frequent tasks such as re-fetching, caching, mutations, and subscriptions a breeze. Consult the documentation for more use-cases and examples.

Compatibility

This library relies on the fetch web API to run queries, you can use unfetch (client-side) or node-fetch (server-side) to use as a polyfill.

Examples

SOON

License

MIT

cperezcapote/villus