React Query

• removes boilerplate of loading state, error state, and setting state for async data requests

• Auto retries up to default of 3 times with backoff

npm install @tanstack/react-query

Basic

import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider, useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query'

const queryClient = new QueryClient()

export default function App() {
  return (
    <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>
      <Example />
    </QueryClientProvider>
  )
}

function Example() {
  const { isLoading, error, data } = useQuery(['repoData', page], () => fetchProjects(page)
    )
  )

  if (isLoading) return 'Loading...'
  
  
  if (error) return 'An error has occurred: ' + error.message

  return (
    <div>
      <h1>{data.name}</h1>
      <p>{data.description}</p>
      <strong>👀 {data.subscribers_count}</strong>{' '}
      <strong>✨ {data.stargazers_count}</strong>{' '}
      <strong>🍴 {data.forks_count}</strong>
    </div>
  )
}

• Could also just check if data exists instead of isLoading, error especially if you are setting enabled

UseQuery

• unique key is used for caching and deduping, can be string or array of serializable data

  • ['todo', {type: 'done', userId}]) will change when userId changes

• Query Fun

Mutation

function App() {
  const mutation = useMutation(newTodo => {
    return axios.post('/todos', newTodo)
  })

  return (
    <div>
      {mutation.isLoading ? (
        'Adding todo...'
      ) : (
        <>
          {mutation.isError ? (
            <div>An error occurred: {mutation.error.message}</div>
          ) : null}

          {mutation.isSuccess ? <div>Todo added!</div> : null}

          <button
            onClick={() => {
              mutation.mutate({ id: new Date(), title: 'Do Laundry' })
            }}
          >
            Create Todo
          </button>
        </>
      )}
    </div>
  )
}

Advanced

• Can also use query object

  useQuery({
    queryKey: ['todo', 7],
    queryFn: fetchTodo,
    config: {
      // The query will not execute until the userId exists
      enabled: !!userId,
      retryDelay: 1000,
      retry: 6,
      //initialData is appended to/kept in cache
      initalData: {},
      placeholderData: {}
    },
  })

• useQueries for changing number of queries per render

Infinite Scroll Queries

import { useInfiniteQuery } from 'react-query'

function Projects() {
  const fetchProjects = ({ pageParam = 0 }) =>
    fetch('/api/projects?cursor=' + pageParam)

  const {
    data,
    error,
    fetchNextPage,
    hasNextPage,
    isFetching,
    isFetchingNextPage,
    status,
  } = useInfiniteQuery('projects', fetchProjects, {
    getNextPageParam: (lastPage, pages) => lastPage.nextCursor,
  })

  return status === 'loading' ? (
    <p>Loading...</p>
  ) : status === 'error' ? (
    <p>Error: {error.message}</p>
  ) : (
    <>
      {data.pages.map((group, i) => (
        <React.Fragment key={i}>
          {group.projects.map(project => (
            <p key={project.id}>{project.name}</p>
          ))}
        </React.Fragment>
      ))}
      <div>
        <button
          onClick={() => fetchNextPage()}
          disabled={!hasNextPage || isFetchingNextPage}
        >
          {isFetchingNextPage
            ? 'Loading more...'
            : hasNextPage
            ? 'Load More'
            : 'Nothing more to load'}
        </button>
      </div>
      <div>{isFetching && !isFetchingNextPage ? 'Fetching...' : null}</div>
    </>
  )
}

Paginated Queries

function Todos() {
  const [page, setPage] = React.useState(0)

  const fetchProjects = (page = 0) => fetch('/api/projects?page=' + page).then((res) => res.json())

  const {
    isLoading,
    isError,
    error,
    data,
    isFetching,
    isPreviousData,
  } = useQuery(['projects', page], () => fetchProjects(page), { keepPreviousData : true })

  return (
    <div>
      {isLoading ? (
        <div>Loading...</div>
      ) : isError ? (
        <div>Error: {error.message}</div>
      ) : (
        <div>
          {data.projects.map(project => (
            <p key={project.id}>{project.name}</p>
          ))}
        </div>
      )}
      <span>Current Page: {page + 1}</span>
      <button
        onClick={() => setPage(old => Math.max(old - 1, 0))}
        disabled={page === 0}
      >
        Previous Page
      </button>{' '}
      <button
        onClick={() => {
          if (!isPreviousData && data.hasMore) {
            setPage(old => old + 1)
          }
        }}
        // Disable the Next Page button until we know a next page is available
        disabled={isPreviousData || !data?.hasMore}
      >
        Next Page
      </button>
      {isFetching ? <span> Loading...</span> : null}{' '}
    </div>
  )
}

Prefetch

const prefetchTodos = async () => {
  // The results of this query will be cached like a normal query
  await queryClient.prefetchQuery('todos', fetchTodos)
}

More

// Invalidate every query in the cache
queryClient.invalidateQueries()
// Invalidate every query with a key that starts with `todos`
queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] })


// When this mutation succeeds, invalidate any queries with the `todos` or `reminders` query key
const mutation = useMutation(addTodo, {
  onSuccess: () => {
    queryClient.invalidateQueries('todos')
    queryClient.invalidateQueries('reminders')
  },
})

• Suspense

• Caching

• FIlters