A brief overview how Info part of PancakeSwap website works.
In terms of React components Info section is just another view (located in src/views/Info) that is assigned route (in App.tsx).
There are also some Info-related components inside src/components (InfoNav, InfoCharts, InfoTables and InfoSearch at the time of writing).
There are helper functions to handle data formatting and requests - src/utils/infoDataHelpers.ts and src/utils/infoQueryHelpers.ts
Info section has it's own reducer in Redux store - src/state/info. It handles all data about pools, tokens and overall protocol. The only exception is token/pool watchlist that is stored under src/state/user reducer.
GraphQL request logic lives under src/state/info/queries directory. Code over there handles firing requests to StreamingFast subgraph as well as formatting returned values and calculating all the derived data we need.
When user visits Info page the following requests are fired (names as declared in src/state/info/queries):
overview
- gets basic protocol data like volume, liquidity and transaction count. 3 requests are fired for current, 24h ago and 48h ago data.
overviewCharts
- gets data to show liquidity and volume charts on overview page.
overviewTransactions
- gets data to show transaction table on overview page
prices
- gets BNB prices (current, 24h, 48 and 7d ago) used in calculations (see src/hooks/useBnbPrices.ts)
topTokens
- gets top NN pools by 24h volume. This request just fetches token addresses, full data is handled separately.
tokens
- given the list of token addresses retrieves all needed data about these tokens. Done in single request but it is in fact 5 batched requests for different timeframes (needed to calculate rate of change). When user first opens the page this request is requesting data for token addresses acquired via topTokens
request.
topPools
- same as topTokens
but for pools
pools
- same as tokens
but for pools
There are also multiple blocks
queries to retrieve block numbers at different timestamps.
The flow is controlled by src/state/info/updaters.ts. When user navigates through the site more pools and tokens are automatically loaded, (e.g. you click on BNB token and pools for BNB are loaded automatically, if you click on BNB-BTCB then BTCB token will be loaded, etc)
There are additional requests for price chart and search that are fired when user uses these features.