What Is React Query?
Explore React Query and its role in managing server-side data fetching and mutations within React Native applications. Understand how it replaces traditional global state management by efficiently handling cached data, background updates, and synchronization with the server. Gain practical knowledge in installing and configuring React Query to improve your app's data consistency and performance.
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First things first: let’s talk about the name of this library. In this chapter, we use the name React Query, it is also a commonly used name. However, the creator of React Query, Tanner Linsley, did some restructuring in 2022 in the open-source libraries that he owns and maintains. He created an umbrella name, TanStack, and placed a plethora of libraries under this name. And so, React Query became TanStack Query, as of React Query version 4.
Why React Query?
Now that we have the name out of the way, let’s talk about the place of React Query in this course. React Query is not a state ...