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Remix's approach to fetching is unique and compelling for Rest APIs. However, if you're working with a GraphQL API, you can eliminate all these much-mentioned

Remix's approach to fetching is unique and compelling for Rest APIs. However, if you're working with a GraphQL API, you can eliminate all these much-mentioned fetch waterfall issues by using Relay as a client... Relay inspects the data needs of all your page's components and compiles them to a single page query. Relay also has a number of nice developer interfaces for common/annoying problems like pagination that I don't think are possible w/ Remix's approach. This article is informative, but I think it misleadingly implies that you can't avoid waterfall fetches in Next (or that it only might be possible someday w/ React Server Components)... you can.

omgsean 5y ago
GraphQL comes with its own set of headaches though, especially if you're the person responsible for implementing the server.
- pier25 5y ago
  Exactly. Plus, if you're using something like Remix, you don't need an API layer anymore. The data goes from the query straight into the view.