setting headers with apolloclent react code example
Example: apollo client authentication
import { ApolloClient, createHttpLink, InMemoryCache } from '@apollo/client';
import { setContext } from '@apollo/client/link/context';
const httpLink = createHttpLink({
uri: '/graphql',
});
const authLink = setContext((_, { headers }) => {
// get the authentication token from local storage if it exists
const token = localStorage.getItem('token');
// return the headers to the context so httpLink can read them
return {
headers: {
...headers,
authorization: token ? `Bearer ${token}` : "",
}
}
});
const client = new ApolloClient({
link: authLink.concat(httpLink),
cache: new InMemoryCache()
});