React Query API Design – Lessons Learned
summary
React Query claims ~20% adoption across React apps and explains specific API choices: it consolidates useQuery to an options object and removed positional overloads, shrinking type code from 125 to 25 lines; it replaces a risky refetchPage idea for infinite scrolling with a maxPages cache limit to avoid inconsistent UI; it leverages TypeScript early, keeps complex features out of core (debounce left to userland), and fixes a v4 state bug that caused eternal loading before v5 patched it.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:34React Query API design
- 5:03Major version challenges
- 8:13TypeScript importance
- 10:41User demands vs library focus
- 14:12Feature requests rejected
- 17:01Handling unhappy users
- 18:46Improving open source
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