diff --git a/client/coral-admin/src/AppRouter.js b/client/coral-admin/src/AppRouter.js
index bebe6a19b..9721123fa 100644
--- a/client/coral-admin/src/AppRouter.js
+++ b/client/coral-admin/src/AppRouter.js
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import {Router, Route, IndexRoute, browserHistory} from 'react-router';
 
-import ModerationContainer from 'containers/ModerationQueue/ModerationContainer';
-import CommentStream from 'containers/CommentStream/CommentStream';
-import Configure from 'containers/Configure/Configure';
 import Streams from 'containers/Streams/Streams';
-import CommunityContainer from 'containers/Community/CommunityContainer';
+import Configure from 'containers/Configure/Configure';
 import LayoutContainer from 'containers/LayoutContainer';
+import CommentStream from 'containers/CommentStream/CommentStream';
 import InstallContainer from 'containers/Install/InstallContainer';
+import CommunityContainer from 'containers/Community/CommunityContainer';
+import ModerationContainer from 'containers/ModerationQueue/ModerationContainer';
 
 const routes = (
   <div>
diff --git a/client/coral-admin/src/index.js b/client/coral-admin/src/index.js
index 84d1b84ad..306461dd0 100644
--- a/client/coral-admin/src/index.js
+++ b/client/coral-admin/src/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 import React from 'react';
-import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
+import {render} from 'react-dom';
+import {ApolloProvider} from 'react-apollo';
+
+import {client} from './services/client';
+import store from './services/store';
+
 import App from './components/App';
 
-// Render the application into the DOM
-ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('#root'));
+render(
+  <ApolloProvider client={client} store={store}>
+    <App />
+  </ApolloProvider>
+  , document.querySelector('#root')
+);
diff --git a/client/coral-admin/src/reducers/index.js b/client/coral-admin/src/reducers/index.js
index 1943e5976..f12de96ba 100644
--- a/client/coral-admin/src/reducers/index.js
+++ b/client/coral-admin/src/reducers/index.js
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
-import {combineReducers} from 'redux';
+import auth from 'reducers/auth';
+import users from 'reducers/users';
+import assets from 'reducers/assets';
+import actions from 'reducers/actions';
+import install from 'reducers/install';
 import comments from 'reducers/comments';
 import settings from 'reducers/settings';
 import community from 'reducers/community';
-import users from 'reducers/users';
-import auth from 'reducers/auth';
-import actions from 'reducers/actions';
-import assets from 'reducers/assets';
-import install from 'reducers/install';
 
-// Combine all reducers into a main one
-export default combineReducers({
+export default {
   settings,
   comments,
   community,
@@ -18,4 +16,4 @@ export default combineReducers({
   assets,
   users,
   install
-});
+};
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/client.js b/client/coral-admin/src/services/client.js
similarity index 100%
rename from client/coral-framework/client.js
rename to client/coral-admin/src/services/client.js
diff --git a/client/coral-admin/src/services/store.js b/client/coral-admin/src/services/store.js
index 0700dc579..bf2735e45 100644
--- a/client/coral-admin/src/services/store.js
+++ b/client/coral-admin/src/services/store.js
@@ -1,17 +1,24 @@
-
-import {createStore, applyMiddleware} from 'redux';
+import {createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware, compose} from 'redux';
 import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
-import mainReducer from 'reducers';
+import mainReducer from '../reducers';
+import {client} from './client';
 
-/**
- * Create the store by merging the app reducers with
- * the talk adapter. The talk adapter is the wire between
- * this client and the coral backend. The idea is we can
- * write different adapters for other platforms if we want
- */
+const middlewares = [
+  applyMiddleware(client.middleware()),
+  applyMiddleware(thunk)
+];
+
+if (window.devToolsExtension) {
+
+  // we can't have the last argument of compose() be undefined
+  middlewares.push(window.devToolsExtension());
+}
 
 export default createStore(
-  mainReducer,
-  window.devToolsExtension && window.devToolsExtension(),
-  applyMiddleware(thunk)
+  combineReducers({
+    ...mainReducer,
+    apollo: client.reducer()
+  }),
+  {},
+  compose(...middlewares)
 );
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/subscriptions.js b/client/coral-admin/src/services/subscriptions.js
similarity index 100%
rename from client/coral-framework/subscriptions.js
rename to client/coral-admin/src/services/subscriptions.js
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/transport.js b/client/coral-admin/src/services/transport.js
similarity index 100%
rename from client/coral-framework/transport.js
rename to client/coral-admin/src/services/transport.js
diff --git a/client/coral-embed-stream/src/index.js b/client/coral-embed-stream/src/index.js
index f75146f0a..3dc69400c 100644
--- a/client/coral-embed-stream/src/index.js
+++ b/client/coral-embed-stream/src/index.js
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import React from 'react';
 import {render} from 'react-dom';
 import {ApolloProvider} from 'react-apollo';
 
-import {client} from 'coral-framework/client';
-import store from 'coral-framework/store';
+import {client} from 'coral-framework/services/client';
+import store from 'coral-framework/services/store';
 
 import Embed from './Embed';
 
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/index.js b/client/coral-framework/index.js
index d2cd4197b..56a2e522c 100644
--- a/client/coral-framework/index.js
+++ b/client/coral-framework/index.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import store from './store';
-import pym from './PymConnection';
+import store from './services/store';
+import pym from './services/PymConnection';
 import I18n from './modules/i18n/i18n';
 import * as authActions from './actions/auth';
 import * as assetActions from './actions/asset';
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/PymConnection.js b/client/coral-framework/services/PymConnection.js
similarity index 77%
rename from client/coral-framework/PymConnection.js
rename to client/coral-framework/services/PymConnection.js
index ca592b824..6c492f2b8 100644
--- a/client/coral-framework/PymConnection.js
+++ b/client/coral-framework/services/PymConnection.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import Pym from '../../node_modules/pym.js';
+import Pym from '../../../node_modules/pym.js';
 
 const pym = new Pym.Child({polling: 100});
 export default pym;
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/services/client.js b/client/coral-framework/services/client.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b4a7a38df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/coral-framework/services/client.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import ApolloClient, {addTypename} from 'apollo-client';
+import getNetworkInterface from './transport';
+
+export const client = new ApolloClient({
+  connectToDevTools: true,
+  queryTransformer: addTypename,
+  dataIdFromObject: (result) => {
+    if (result.id && result.__typename) { // eslint-disable-line no-underscore-dangle
+      return result.__typename + result.id; // eslint-disable-line no-underscore-dangle
+    }
+    return null;
+  },
+  networkInterface: getNetworkInterface()
+});
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/store.js b/client/coral-framework/services/store.js
similarity index 93%
rename from client/coral-framework/store.js
rename to client/coral-framework/services/store.js
index 439569ee1..bf2735e45 100644
--- a/client/coral-framework/store.js
+++ b/client/coral-framework/services/store.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import {createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware, compose} from 'redux';
 import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
-import mainReducer from './reducers';
+import mainReducer from '../reducers';
 import {client} from './client';
 
 const middlewares = [
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/services/subscriptions.js b/client/coral-framework/services/subscriptions.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..818a6fb33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/coral-framework/services/subscriptions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import {print} from 'graphql-tag/printer';
+
+// quick way to add the subscribe and unsubscribe functions to the network interface
+const addGraphQLSubscriptions = (networkInterface, wsClient) => {
+  return Object.assign(networkInterface, {
+    subscribe: (request, handler) => wsClient.subscribe({
+      query: print(request.query),
+      variables: request.variables,
+    }, handler),
+    unsubscribe: (id) => {
+      wsClient.unsubscribe(id);
+    },
+  });
+};
+
+export default addGraphQLSubscriptions;
diff --git a/client/coral-framework/services/transport.js b/client/coral-framework/services/transport.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2bd6ac636
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/coral-framework/services/transport.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import {createNetworkInterface} from 'apollo-client';
+
+export default function getNetworkInterface(apiUrl = '/api/v1/graph/ql', headers = {}) {
+  return new createNetworkInterface({
+    uri: apiUrl,
+    opts: {
+      credentials: 'same-origin',
+      headers,
+    },
+  });
+}
diff --git a/client/coral-settings/containers/SettingsContainer.js b/client/coral-settings/containers/SettingsContainer.js
index 4398ed5c6..9e72cdadc 100644
--- a/client/coral-settings/containers/SettingsContainer.js
+++ b/client/coral-settings/containers/SettingsContainer.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import I18n from 'coral-framework/modules/i18n/i18n';
 
 import {myCommentHistory} from 'coral-framework/graphql/queries';
 
-import {link} from 'coral-framework/PymConnection';
+import {link} from 'coral-framework/services/PymConnection';
 import NotLoggedIn from '../components/NotLoggedIn';
 import {Spinner} from 'coral-ui';
 import SettingsHeader from '../components/SettingsHeader';
diff --git a/views/article.ejs b/views/article.ejs
index 1315acac6..3869262ff 100644
--- a/views/article.ejs
+++ b/views/article.ejs
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     <script src="/embed.js" async onload="
       Coral.Talk.render(document.getElementById('coralStreamEmbed'), {
         talk: '/',
-        asset: <%= asset_url ? asset_url : 'undefined' %>
+        asset: '<%= asset_url ? asset_url : '' %>'
       })
     "></script>
   </main>