Modern applications are increasingly becoming real time. Some examples of real-time updates in web apps include notification updates, chat messaging applications, and financial market updates. GraphQL makes creating apps with low latency, real-time updates easy with a feature called subscriptions.

In this guide, you will learn how to subscribe to real-time updates from a GraphQL server using subscriptions. A previous guide, How to Set Up GraphQL in a React App, covered how to set up a new React Project with GraphQL using Apollo Client. This guide builds on what you learned there. Here, you will learn how to keep your client in sync with the backend by setting up a connection to allow your server to proactively push updates as they occur.

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