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What is Apollo Client and what does it do?

Apollo Client is the best way to use GraphQL to build client applications. The client is designed to help you quickly build a UI that fetches data with GraphQL, and can be used with any JavaScript front-end. The client is:

  • Incrementally adoptable: You can drop it into an existing app today.
  • Universally compatible: Apollo works with any build setup, any GraphQL server, and any GraphQL schema.
  • Simple to get started with: Start loading data right away and learn about advanced features later.
  • Inspectable and understandable: Interrogate and understand exactly what is happening in an application.
  • Built for interactive apps: Application users make changes and see them reflected immediately.
  • Small and flexible: You don't get stuff your application doesn't need.
  • Community driven: Apollo is driven by the community and serves a variety of use cases.

Getting started

The docs for Apollo Client are mainly written using the React integration, but most of the examples work no matter where you use Apollo. The docs are broken into five distinct sections to make it easy to find your way around:

  1. ESSENTIALS: Outlines everything you need to know in order to get up and running quickly.
  2. FEATURES: Details the amazing things you can do with Apollo Client.
  3. ADVANCED: Covers the more advanced Apollo Client capabilities that your app may need.
  4. RECIPES: Learn about and understand common patterns.
  5. API: Full API details for Apollo Client and React Apollo.

Prefer a non-React platform?

Most of this sites documentation examples are written using React, but Apollo Client supports many other platforms:

Just using GraphQL?

We believe that using GraphQL should be easy and fun. One of the ways that Apollo supports this is that you can write your queries in GraphiQL and they will just work with Apollo Client! Because Apollo Client doesn't assume anything beyond the official GraphQL specification, it works with every GraphQL server implementation, for every language. Apollo Client doesn't impose any requirements on your schema either! If you can send a query to a standard GraphQL server, Apollo Client can handle it. You can find a list of GraphQL server implementations at graphql.org.