The ever changing world of front end development continues to evolve and introduce many different libraries to solve your problems. As GraphQL continues to grow in popularity, the tools and libraries surrounding it change also. Recently I helped write a new application that interacted solely with a GraphQL backend, and used Apollo Client (AC) to interact with instead of Redux in our React frontend application. Having previously written many javascript apps with Redux, here are some takeaways from my experience.

Disclaimer: Comparing the two libraries assumes you are working with a GraphQL backend. Apollo Client doesn’t work with other types of backends and isn’t a viable alternative to Redux in that case.

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