How to switch polling on and off in Apollo?

Question

I use the useQuery Hook like this:

function Foo() {
  const { data, error, loading } = useQuery(MY_QUERY, { pollInterval: 1000 });

  return (
    <>
      <Bar/>
      <Baz/>
      {data}
    </>
  );
}

Now, both Bar and Baz use the same query. Baz is a sidebar and I'd like to disable the polling while it is active.

I have a global reducer for handling the state of Baz and I modified it like this:

if (isSidebarOpen === false) {
  ...
  apolloClient.stop();
} else {
  // TODO
}

This stops the polling, but I don't know how to reactivate it when the sidebar gets closed (that is, in the else block above).

Am I doing this correctly? Is there a different way to toggle the polling of a GraphQL query with Apollo?

Answer 1

You can start and stop polling dynamically with the startPolling and stopPolling functions that are returned by the useQuery hook. For more information, you can see the docs here.