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urql
A highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client for React
More documentation is available at formidable.com/open-source/urql.
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Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications powered by GraphQL. It emphasizes performance and scalability, making it suitable for large applications. Relay is more opinionated and requires a specific setup, which can be more challenging for beginners compared to urql.
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A highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client for React
The npm package urql receives a total of 197,578 weekly downloads. As such, urql popularity was classified as popular.
We found that urql demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 20 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 29 Aug 2025
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