[DownGoat]

It depends on your needs, on the server side you are probably not missing much. Apollo tracing might be nice if you want some statistics on how your graph is consumed.

The client side depends on the client, we have a Angular SPA that extensively uses Apollo Client together with some code generation tools. The benefits we see from this are:

* The whole schema is automatically defined in frontend, so it is easy to keep types in sync between frontend and backend. * .gql files are scanned, so services that consumes the queries/mutations are automatically generated with correct typing. * The Apollo Client cache makes it easier keep the data updated across different components.

This greatly reduces the boilerplate code our developers have to create, and it makes it much easier to share type definitions from backend to frontend without having to worry about them getting out of sync. We are still exploring different tools, to see what we might benefit from.