GraphQL Requests on Your Front-end w/Next.js

Video Description

In this video, Sitecore Developer Advocate Thomas Desmond looks at how to use a GraphQL client in the popular Next.js front-end framework. Example Code Repository: https://github.com/thomas-desmond/edge-graphql-demo GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with existing data. GraphQL: - Provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API - Gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need - Gets all the data an app needs in a single request, which is critical for e-commerce merchandising and optimizing digital customer experience - Makes it easier to evolve APIs over time - Enables powerful developer tools Thomas uses Sitecore Experience Edge for Content Hub for the GraphQL endpoint, which comes with a read-only GraphQL schema designed to accommodate common front-end use cases for headless Sitecore development. After watching the video, click below to learn more about the Sitecore Experience Edge schema. https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/hd/21/sitecore-headless-development/the-experience-edge-schema.html If you want to learn how to setup Sitecore Experience Edge for Content Hub check out the previously published video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_f4Fin6KU