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State Management with React Query

You're reading from   State Management with React Query Improve developer and user experience by mastering server state in React

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231341
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Afonso Daniel Afonso
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding State and Getting to Know React Query
2. Chapter 1: What Is State and How Do We Manage It? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Server State versus Client State 4. Chapter 3: React Query – Introducing, Installing, and Configuring It 5. Part 2: Managing Server State with React Query
6. Chapter 4: Fetching Data with React Query 7. Chapter 5: More Data-Fetching Challenges 8. Chapter 6: Performing Data Mutations with React Query 9. Chapter 7: Server-Side Rendering with Next.js or Remix 10. Chapter 8: Testing React Query Hooks and Components 11. Chapter 9: What Changes in React Query v5? 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is server state?

We have always had server state in our applications. The main issue was that we tried to tie it in with our client state management solutions. A common example of trying to tie our server state with our client state management solutions is using either Redux Saga or Redux Thunk. Both of them made it easier to do data fetching and store your server state. The main issue starts when we have to deal with some of the challenges server state brings us, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves; you will understand these challenges in the next section.

Now, what is server state, you might be wondering?

Well, as the name says, server state is the type of state that is stored on your server. Here are a couple of things that help identify your server state:

  • This state is asynchronous, which means you need to use asynchronous APIs for fetching and updating it.
  • It is persisted remotely – most of the time on a database or external place you don...
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