There is something new happening almost every day in the world of technology. On one day the good people of React bring us a way to work with the state without having to write classes (React Hooks), and on some other day, someone releases a new library that lets you work with Ethereum through Vue (Vuethereum)!

Instead of running behind these updates and immediately implementing them into your project, it is better to stick with something that is reliable, stable, and easy to work with. At the same time, you need to make sure that your tech stack is more than capable of giving you what you need.

The same is true in the case of GraphQL! GraphQL is an open source data querying language that is used for building APIs for web and mobile applications. It is a great replacement for REST and other web service architectures. It allows the client side of the app to get the data in any structure.

To know more about the benefits of using GraphQL, check out this other post that I wrote a while back.

But GraphQL is just a query language. And in order to use it easily, we need to use a platform that will do all the heavy lifting for us. One such platform is provided by Apollo.

The Apollo platform is an implementation of GraphQL that can transfer data between the cloud (server) to the UI of your app. In fact, Apollo builds its environment in such a way that we can use it to handle GraphQL on the client as well as the server side of the application.

In this post, I will present some of the great reasons why Apollo is considered to be one of the popular choices for using GraphQL in JavaScript-based apps.

Tip: Use Bit to build JS apps faster with components. Organize, share and reuse components to build apps with your team. It also works great with Apollo and React components, give it a try.