npm package: @jameslefrere/react-apollo-network-status
Description: Brings information about the global network status from Apollo into React.
Author: Jan Amann
Latest version: 5.1.0

# react-apollo-network-status

> Brings information about the global network status from Apollo into React.

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This library helps with implementing global loading indicators like progress bars or adding global error handling, so you don't have to respond to every error in a component that invokes an operation.

## Usage

```js
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {ApolloClient, InMemoryCache, createHttpLink, ApolloProvider} from '@apollo/client';
import {createNetworkStatusNotifier} from 'react-apollo-network-status';

const {link, useApolloNetworkStatus} = createNetworkStatusNotifier();

function GlobalLoadingIndicator() {
  const status = useApolloNetworkStatus();

  if (status.numPendingQueries > 0) {
    return <p>Loading …</p>;
  } else {
    return null;
  }
}

const client = new ApolloClient({
  cache: new InMemoryCache(),
  link: link.concat(createHttpLink())
});

const element = (
  <ApolloProvider client={client}>
    <GlobalLoadingIndicator />
    <App />
  </ApolloProvider>
);
ReactDOM.render(element, document.getElementById('root'));
```

> **Note:** The current version of this library supports the latest [`@apollo-client` package](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/migrating/apollo-client-3-migration/). If you're using an older version of React Apollo and don't want to upgrade, you can use an older version of this library (see [changelog](./CHANGELOG.md)).

## Returned data

The hook `useApolloNetworkStatus` provides an object with the following properties:

```tsx
type NetworkStatus = {
  // The number of queries which are currently in flight.
  numPendingQueries: number;
  
  // The number of mutations which are currently in flight.
  numPendingMutations: number;

  // The latest query error that has occured. This will be reset once the next query starts.
  queryError?: OperationError;

  // The latest mutation error that has occured. This will be reset once the next mutation starts.
  mutationError?: OperationError;
};

type OperationError = {
  networkError?: Error | ServerError | ServerParseError;
  operation?: Operation;
  response?: ExecutionResult;
  graphQLErrors?: ReadonlyArray<GraphQLError>;
};
```

Subscriptions currently don't affect the status returned by `useApolloNetworkStatus`.

Useful applications are for example integrating with [NProgress.js](http://ricostacruz.com/nprogress/) or showing errors with [snackbars from Material UI](http://www.material-ui.com/#/components/snackbar).

## Advanced usage

### Limit handling to specific operations

The default configuration enables an **opt-out** behaviour per operation by setting a context variable:

```js
// Somewhere in a React component
mutate({context: {useApolloNetworkStatus: false}});
```

You can configure an **opt-in** behaviour by specifying an operation whitelist like this:

```js
// Inside the component handling the network events
useApolloNetworkStatus({
  shouldHandleOperation: (operation: Operation) =>
    operation.getContext().useApolloNetworkStatus === true
});

// Somewhere in a React component
mutate({context: {useApolloNetworkStatus: true}});
```

### Custom state

You can fully control how operations are mapped to state by providing a custom reducer to a separate low-level hook.

```tsx
const {link, useApolloNetworkStatusReducer} = createNetworkStatusNotifier();

const initialState = 0;

function reducer(state: number, action: NetworkStatusAction) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case ActionTypes.REQUEST:
      return state + 1;

    case ActionTypes.ERROR:
    case ActionTypes.SUCCESS:
    case ActionTypes.CANCEL:
      return state - 1;
  }
}

function GlobalLoadingIndicator() {
  const numPendingQueries = useApolloNetworkStatusReducer(reducer, initialState);
  return <p>Pending queries: {numPendingQueries}</p>;
}
```