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Andrew Ross •

Great article Rob! I've been using Headless Wordpress for a couple of months now and thought I should mention that one of my absolute favorite features is stable "revalidate" on getStaticProps. Background incremental static regeneration is a game changer, seamlessly threading the headless WP server with the client in production. No githooks required

// ...
export const getStaticProps = async ({
    preview = false,
    // context,
    field = MODIFIED || TITLE || DATE,
    order = ASC || DESC,
    desiredCategory
}: StaticProps) => {
    // console.log(context);
    const allPosts = await getAllPostsForHomeAlphabetical({
        preview,
        field,
        order
    });
    const tagsAndPosts = await getTagAndPosts();
    const categories = await getCategories();

    // const apolloClient: ApolloClient<NormalizedCacheObject> = initializeApollo();

    // await apolloClient.query({
    //  query: ALL_POSTS_QUERY,
    //  variables: allPostsQueryVars
    // });
    // const userOptions = await getAllPostsForHomeSorted(preview, field);
    // IMPORTANT https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-5#stable-incremental-static-regeneration
    return {
        props: {
            // initialApolloState: apolloClient.cache.extract(),
            allPosts,
            preview,
            tagsAndPosts,
            field,
            order,
            categories
        },
        revalidate: 1
    };
};

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(transitioning to @apollo/client is a work in progress)

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Rob Kendal {{☕}} •

Thanks Andrew and so pleased you like the article. Yes, thanks for highlighting this. It's a feature that's definitely worth people checking out as it is indeed a game changer.