The author’s answer to that question is a resounding, ‘yes’. 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. He lays out what Apollo has to offer and then lists 6 advantages of using the Apollo Platform.

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Solid tutorial on Service Workers: You can think of the service worker as someone who sits between the client and server and all the requests that are made to the server pass through the service worker. Basically, a middle man. Since all the request pass through the service worker, it is capable to intercept these requests on the fly.

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