Reducing code with React Apollo: A small team at Major League Soccer, Major League Soccer, successfully reduced nearly 5,000 lines of code by offloading data fetching management to Apollo, resulting in a more declarative application. They achieved this by leveraging GraphQL's features such as incremental adoption, polling, and fetchMore, which allowed them to simplify their Redux-based application and reduce maintenance burden. By using Apollo's higher-order components like graphql() and compose(), they were able to reuse familiar concepts from Redux to build more scalable and maintainable applications. The team's experience demonstrates the benefits of adopting a GraphQL-first approach for managing data fetching in React applications.