What is Relay? Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015). Each component specifies its own data dependencies declaratively using a query language called GraphQL. The data are made available to the component via properties on this.props. Developers compose these React components naturally
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