I took a look at react query and it seemed to me that the core of it was caching the network request promises with named keys, so that you could inefficiently call the same endpoint redundantly a bunch of times and not get punished for it. Even if a codebase could get away with such sloppiness it should probably avoid it.
And then as I recall it featured some out of the box refetching to unstale the cached data. I think this core idea is pretty good, though I don't like the cultishness of the people who use this lib. And the vast majority of pages in the wild I have worked on don't need this auto-refresh, as the data will be static until the user does something new (i.e. because the user is viewing personal data). Even if I wanted to refresh the data often (i.e. I had a site like reddit) I would prob just roll my own custom refresh logic.
If server side logic is "insanely complicated", and is routinely being solved in two lines post react query, instantly working better than files worth of server side data fetching code, why the need to charge 149 to learn the fundamentals? If I had taken a paid course to learn a state management library I would probably advocate for it everywhere I went.
And then as I recall it featured some out of the box refetching to unstale the cached data. I think this core idea is pretty good, though I don't like the cultishness of the people who use this lib. And the vast majority of pages in the wild I have worked on don't need this auto-refresh, as the data will be static until the user does something new (i.e. because the user is viewing personal data). Even if I wanted to refresh the data often (i.e. I had a site like reddit) I would prob just roll my own custom refresh logic.
And then this
https://ui.dev/checkout/react-query?from=tanstack
If server side logic is "insanely complicated", and is routinely being solved in two lines post react query, instantly working better than files worth of server side data fetching code, why the need to charge 149 to learn the fundamentals? If I had taken a paid course to learn a state management library I would probably advocate for it everywhere I went.