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State Management with React Query

By : Daniel Afonso
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State Management with React Query

By: Daniel Afonso

Overview of this book

State management, a crucial aspect of the React ecosystem, has gained significant attention in recent times. While React offers various libraries and tools to handle state, each with different approaches and perspectives, one thing is clear: state management solutions for handling client state are not optimized for dealing with server state. React Query was created to address this issue of managing your server state, and this guide will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use React Query for state management. Starting with a brief history of state management in the React ecosystem, you’ll find out what prompted the split from a global state to client and server state and thus understand the need for React Query. As you progress through the chapters, you'll see how React Query enables you to perform server state tasks such as fetching, caching, updating, and synchronizing your data with the server. But that’s not all; once you’ve mastered React Query, you’ll be able to apply this knowledge to handle server state with server-side rendering frameworks as well. You’ll also work with patterns to test your code by leveraging the testing library and Mock Service Worker. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a new perspective of state and be able to leverage React Query to overcome the obstacles associated with server state.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Part 1: Understanding State and Getting to Know React Query
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Part 2: Managing Server State with React Query

Part 1: Understanding State and Getting to Know React Query

State is what makes your applications move. What many of us are not often aware of is that there are different types of state. These different types lead to different challenges when managing the given state. In this part, we will understand more about state and how we manage it. During this process, we will understand that the server and client states have very different challenges that need to be handled separately and with different tools. To deal with server state, we will learn more about the TanStack Query React adapter called React Query and see how to add it to our applications.

This part includes the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, What Is State and How Do We Manage It?
  • Chapter 2, Server State versus Client State
  • Chapter 3, React Query – Introducing, Installing, and Configuring It