Disabling Cache in ApolloClient exported from apollo-boost

Question

I want to disable caching or restrict the cache to 24 hours. My ApolloClient runs exclusively on the Server side.

My environment:

• apollo-boost 0.4.3
• graphql 14.1.1
• apollo-link-batch-http - 1.2.12

Right now, that's how I configure my ApolloClient.

new ApolloClient({
      ssrMode: true,
      cache: new InMemoryCache(),
      link: WithApollo.BatchLink(),
      credentials: 'same-origin',
    });

The closest thing I saw in docs is FetchOptions ... But it doesn't specify what options i can actually pass to achieve my need for disabling or restricting the cache.

Answer 1

This is not possible with Apollo Boost. You need to migrate to migrate to using Apollo Client. This will allow you to provide a defaultOptions option to your ApolloClient constructor as shown in the docs:

const defaultOptions = {
  watchQuery: {
    fetchPolicy: 'no-cache',
  },
  query: {
    fetchPolicy: 'no-cache',
  },
}

The fetchPolicy option can actually be set on each individual query call or Query component -- by providing a defaultOptions object, you avoid having to specify no-cache as the fetch policy on each individual Query component you use. That also means if you're bent on keeping Boost, you could just do this on each of your components. However, the above is how to effectively "turn off" caching for the whole client.