> I think Meteor is building something called Apollo Apollo is a library for GraphQL, primarily client side but there's also a server component (sort of like E

> I think Meteor is building something called Apollo Apollo is a library for GraphQL, primarily client side but there's also a server component (sort of like ExpressJS for GraphQL). While GraphQL also includes real-time web-socket based subscriptions, they are an extension rather than the core, and, in practice, most clients/servers (including Apollo) use polling to fetch updates because it requires a much simpler server architecture.