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Discussion on: Apollo/GraphQL vs MERN/MongoDB

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Zhitomir Oreshenski

Apollo will give you ability to fetch data that you want instead receiving bunch of unnecessary items or chain multiple request to build what you want.

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Bret

Is it mainly for when your using a API vs your own data?

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Zhitomir Oreshenski

Well, it will simplify fetching complex data and mostly depends on your needs, but you will have a control on FE as well.