Building The Facebook News Feed With Relay

At React.js Conf in January we gave a preview of Relay, a new framework for building data-driven applications in React. In this post, we’ll describe the process of creating a Relay application. This post assumes some familiarity with the concepts of Relay and GraphQL, so if you haven’t already we recommend reading our introductory blog post or watching the conference talk.

We’re working hard to prepare GraphQL and Relay for public release. In the meantime, we’ll continue to provide information about what you can expect.

The Relay Architecture

The diagram below shows the main parts of the Relay architecture on the client and the server: