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Adhithi Ravichandran
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Mar 13, 2020 â‹… 4 min read

GraphQL variables in simple terms

Adhithi Ravichandran Software consultant, Pluralsight author, speaker, React Native/React/GraphQL dev, and Indian classical musician. You can find me online at adhithiravichandran.com.

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3 Replies to "GraphQL variables in simple terms"

  1. Testing variables in some application is pretty straightforward. However, how do you use variables in a standard fetch call using code?

    1. In the body of the request stringify your graphql query like this:- hope it helps

      fetch(‘https://api.hashnode.com’, {
      method: ‘POST’,
      headers: {
      ‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’,
      Authorization: ”,
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
      query:
      ‘mutation createStory($input: CreateStoryInput!){ createStory(input: $input){ code success message } }’,
      variables: {
      input: {
      title: ‘What are the e2e testing libraries you use ?’,
      contentMarkdown: ‘# You can put Markdown here.\n***\n’,
      tags: [
      {
      _id: ‘56744723958ef13879b9549b’,
      slug: ‘testing’,
      name: ‘Testing’,
      },
      ],
      coverImageURL:
      ‘https://codybontecou.com/images/header-meta-component.png’,
      },
      },
      }),
      })
      .then(res => res.json())
      .then(res => console.log(JSON.stringify(res)))

  2. Thank you! After endless hours trying to use string interpolation to inject my $token into the GraphQL request and having to deal with needing to escape quotation mark characters, this helped me correctly use variables for my request.

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