# Building React Apps with GraphQL, Graphcool & Apollo

DevFeed: [Building React Apps with GraphQL, Graphcool & Apollo](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-react-apps-with-graphql-graphcool-apollo-23247.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/building-react-apps-with-graphql-graphcool-apollo-a54215ccd202>)

Author: Graphcool

Published: 2017-06-07T00:01:38Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [apollo-client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apollo-client.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apollo-client](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apollo-client.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [playground](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/playground.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [sdl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdl.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial shows how to build a simple Instagram app with React and GraphQL using Apollo Client and Graphcool. It covers creating a GraphQL server and backend from a schema, configuring the app with the generated endpoint, and exploring the resulting code.

## Source excerpt

It's been less than two years since Facebook first open-sourced GraphQL as a new way of exposing data from an API. In that short period, it's already revolutionized the API space and many major companies, like GitHub, Twitter and Yelp, have started using it in production. In this article, you'll learn how to quickly get started with React & GraphQL by using Apollo Client and Graphcool to building a simple Instagram app. You can find the final version of the code on GitHub.