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Does Graphcool have mobile sync clients? That seems like a big differentiator, and puts AWS AppSync up against other cloud-backed storage vendors like Realm and Couchbase. A sync client backed by GraphQL is just icing on the cake, offering much more flexibility on the backend.

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One really neat thing is that the clients are based on the MIT-licensed Apollo Client. So we hope that everyone using GraphQL can easily get these benefits! Check out the code on GitHub: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-mobile-appsync-sdk-js/blob/25...

(Disclaimer: I work on the Apollo team)

I was not aware of Apollo... Thanks for the link. Looks great. Just went down a rabbit hole on offline support for Apollo, and looks like people are working on some elegant solutions.

I've been using https://github.com/Malpaux/apollo-offline for offline support in production for a few months now and it has worked very well. I discovered one issue but the maintainer was very responsive and had my PR merged in and published within 24 hours.

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