Integrating a Frontend Using React and TanStack Query
After designing, implementing, and testing our backend service, it’s now time to create a frontend to interface with the backend. First, we will start by setting up a full-stack React project based on the Vite boilerplate and the backend service created in the previous chapters. Then, we are going to create a basic user interface for our blog application. Finally, we will use TanStack Query, a data fetching library to handle backend state, to integrate the backend API into the frontend. By the end of this chapter, we will have successfully developed our first full-stack application!
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- Principles of React
- Setting up a full-stack React project
- Creating the user interface for our application
- Integrating the backend service using TanStack Query