Introduction to React Query

Data is at the heart of modern web apps, and React is the reigning UI framework.

Application state is everywhere—from determining whether a button is enabled, user input in forms, and remote state stored in your database behind an API. It's buried in React components, encapsulated in stores like Redux, URLs, and HTML elements.

React Query offers a stable, mature, and production-ready set of hooks to interact with the data your React app produces and consumes.

Why do you need React Query?

React Query solves the core problem facing modern single page web apps - how to manage state, especially remote state fetched over unreliable networks and stored in memory in your single page application.

Declarative State Management

State management in React can get complicated fast. You need a predicable way to access and mutate your state.

You can choose from one of the myriad state management libraries available today, but this only solves part of the problem. State management libraries by and large help…