This blog post explores how to integrate Relay and Next.js with React Server Components (RSC), addressing a gap in existing resources. While Relay excels as a GraphQL client for Client-Side Rendering (CSR), this guide demonstrates its potential for RSC use cases, which is vital for applications prioritizing SEO and faster initial load times.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to integrate Strawberry GraphQL and FastAPI with Relay to enable persisted queries, which can significantly boost the performance of GraphQL applications. We’ll cover setting up a Relay environment on the client side, configuring a GraphQL server to handle persisted queries, and extending the Strawberry GraphQL schema to manage these queries.