@quilted/react-query

Integrates TanStack React Query with Quilt by automatically running your queries during server-side rendering.

Quilt provides integrations for two popular React querying libraries: react-query (this library) and swr. Which should you use? We recommend using swr until you find limitations that are solved by react-query. The reason is simple: swr is ~4Kb compressed, while react-query is ~13Kb compressed. react-query provides a detailed comparison of these libraries if you are interested in learning about more advanced features react-query supports with those extra bytes.

Installation

Install both @quilted/react-query and @tanstack/react-query as dependencies of your project:

$ pnpm add @quilted/react-query @tanstack/react-query --save

Note: This library needs @quilted/quilt installed in your local repository. If you have just created a new Quilt app, you already have this installed.

Usage

React Query’s getting started instructions instruct you to create a QueryClient object, and pass it to a QueryClientProvider component. To integrate React Query with Quilt, you will pass your QueryClient object to this library’s ReactQueryContext component instead:

import {useMemo} from 'preact/hooks';
import {QueryClient} from '@tanstack/react-query';
import {ReactQueryContext} from '@quilted/react-query';

export default function App() {
  const client = useMemo(() => new QueryClient(), []);

  return (
    <ReactQueryContext client={client}>
      <Example />
    </ReactQueryContext>
  );
}

The ReactQueryContext takes care of ensuring that all queries made by your application are run during server-side rendering. It serializes the results into your HTML payload, and “hydrating” the query client so that data is available when your application starts in the user’s browser. It also renders the QueryClientProvider for you, so you don’t need to do it yourself.

That’s all the setup you need! Elsewhere in your application, you can now use React Query’s useSuspenseQuery hook to load data in your components. The example below shows how you might use Quilt’s GraphQL utilities to perform type-safe GraphQL queries using React Query:

import {createGraphQLHttpFetch} from '@quilted/quilt';
import {useSuspenseQuery} from '@tanstack/react-query';

import startQuery from './Start.graphql';

const query = createGraphQLHttpFetch({uri: 'https://my-graphql-api.com'});

export function Start() {
  const result = useSuspenseQuery('start-query', () => query(startQuery));

  return <pre>{JSON.stringify(result, null, 2)}</pre>;
}