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+**Announcement:**   
+Join 1000+ engineers at GraphQL Summit for talks, workshops, and office hours, Oct 8-10 in NYC. [Get your pass here ->](https://summit.graphql.com/?utm_campaign=github_federation_readme)
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 Apollo Client is a fully-featured caching GraphQL client with integrations for React, Angular, and more. It allows you to easily build UI components that fetch data via GraphQL.
 
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