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What is Apollo?

Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.
Apollo is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Apollo is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apollo's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Apollo?

Companies
458 companies reportedly use Apollo in their tech stacks, including The New York Times, medium.com, and CircleCI.

Developers
1559 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apollo.

Apollo Integrations

GraphQL, Gatsby, Prisma, Google Code Prettify, and Prisma Cloud are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apollo. Here's a list of all 14 tools that integrate with Apollo.
Pros of Apollo
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From the creators of Meteor
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Great documentation
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Open source
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Real time if use subscription
Decisions about Apollo

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Apollo in their tech stack.

Martin Johannesson
Senior Software Developer at IT Minds · | 14 upvotes · 708.5K views
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At IT Minds we create customized internal or #B2B web and mobile apps. I have a go to stack that I pitch to our customers consisting of 3 core areas. 1) A data core #backend . 2) A micro #serverless #backend. 3) A user client #frontend.

For the Data Core I create a backend using TypeScript Node.js and with TypeORM connecting to a PostgreSQL Exposing an action based api with Apollo GraphQL

For the micro serverless backend, which purpose is verification for authentication, autorization, logins and the likes. It is created with Next.js api pages. Using MongoDB to store essential information, caching etc.

Finally the frontend is built with React using Next.js , TypeScript and @Apollo. We create the frontend as a PWA and have a AMP landing page by default.

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Simon Reymann
Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 23 upvotes · 2.1M views

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

  • Nuxt.js consisting of Vue CLI, Vue Router, vuex, Webpack and Sass (Bundler for HTML5, CSS 3), Babel (Transpiler for JavaScript),
  • Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed Vue.js components
  • Vuetify as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
  • TypeScript as programming language
  • Apollo / GraphQL (incl. GraphiQL) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
  • ESLint, TSLint and Prettier for coding style and code analyzes
  • Jest as testing framework
  • Google Fonts and Font Awesome for typography and icon toolkit
  • NativeScript-Vue for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

  • Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
  • Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
  • Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
  • Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
  • Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
  • Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.
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Needs advice
on
ApolloApolloFirebaseFirebase
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Socket.IOSocket.IO

We are starting to work on a web-based platform aiming to connect artists (clients) and professional freelancers (service providers). In-app, timeline-based, real-time communication between users (& storing it), file transfers, and push notifications are essential core features. We are considering using Node.js, ExpressJS, React, MongoDB stack with Socket.IO & Apollo, or maybe using Real-Time Database and functionalities of Firebase.

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Needs advice
on
Quasar FrameworkQuasar Framework
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VuetifyVuetify

We want to build an e/m-learning platform, so please guide us on choosing Quasar Framework or Vuetify? Our preferred tech stack is - Vue.js, GraphQL, Apollo. Which is best suited for the production-level UI framework?

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Needs advice
on
ApolloApollo
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GraphQLGraphQL

Im getting a empty object [] or [ ] in my console, my getPosts is working in my MERN+Apollo/GraphQL Stack, but..... not the others, the fields are showing in my getStop, getItems, but its not showing the data from MongoDB

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George Krachtopoulos
Needs advice
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apollo-clientapollo-client
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Relay FrameworkRelay Framework

I am working on a production-ready website, and I need to fetch data from a GraphQL API built with Apollo Server. I would like to use Relay, due to performance optimizations, but the docs are too complicated, and the community is not as extended as Apollo's one. If anyone has used both tools or has faced similar questions, I would really appreciate your comment and your opinion on this.

Note: I will also be using Next.js with Static Site Generation, which provides multiple performance optimizations.

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Apollo Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Apollo?
Helios
Helios is a Docker orchestration platform for deploying and managing containers across an entire fleet of servers. Helios provides a HTTP API as well as a command-line client to interact with servers running your containers.
GraphQL
GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Relay Framework
Never again communicate with your data store using an imperative API. Simply declare your data requirements using GraphQL and let Relay figure out how and when to fetch your data.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
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