How to disable cache in apollo-link or apollo-client?

Question

I'm using apollo-client, apollo-link and react-apollo, I want to fully disable cache, but don't know how to do it.

I read the source of apollo-cache-inmemory, it has a config argument in its constructor, but I can't build a dummy storeFactory to make it works.

Answer 1

You can set defaultOptions to your client like this:

const defaultOptions: DefaultOptions = {       watchQuery: {         fetchPolicy: 'no-cache',         errorPolicy: 'ignore',       },       query: {         fetchPolicy: 'no-cache',         errorPolicy: 'all',       },     }  const client = new ApolloClient({     link: concat(authMiddleware, httpLink),     cache: new InMemoryCache(),     defaultOptions: defaultOptions,  }); 

fetchPolicy as no-cache avoids using the cache.

See https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/core/ApolloClient/#defaultoptions

Answer 2

Actually, setting fetchPolicy to network-only still saves the response to the cache for later use, bypassing the reading and forcing a network request.

If you really want to disable the cache, read and write, use no-cache. Which is "similar to network-only, except the query's result is not stored in the cache."

Take a look at the official docs: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/data/queries/#configuring-fetch-logic