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title: Welcome
description: Start here to learn about the Apollo platform
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Hi there! 👋 We're excited you're here to learn about Apollo.
Apollo is a platform for building a **data graph**, a communication layer that seamlessly connects application clients (such as React and iOS apps) to back-end services.
It's easy to adopt Apollo incrementally, meaning you can set it up alongside an existing solution (such as a REST API) and migrate functionality at your convenience.
**The Apollo platform consists of:**
- [Apollo Client](https://apollographql.com/docs/react/), an open-source library for managing state in application clients
- [Apollo Server](https://apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/), an open-source framework for implementing and running a data graph at scale
- [Apollo Graph Manager](https://apollographql.com/docs/platform/graph-manager-overview) (formerly Engine), a cloud service that helps you manage, validate, and secure your organization's data graph
- Developer tools that make it even easier to work with Apollo, including extensions for [Chrome](https://apollographql.com/docs/react/features/developer-tooling/#apollo-client-devtools) and [VS Code](/platform/editor-plugins/)
Conveniently, we have a tutorial that introduces you to each component of the platform. Ready to dive in?
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Try it out!
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Learn more
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![Graph layer](./img/platform.jpg)