TanStack Query
Frontend Frameworks
High-performance client-side data caching and synchronization
Overview
TanStack Query (formerly React Query) is a data-fetching library focused on server state management. It provides efficient caching, background refreshing, and request deduplication, simplifying the handling of async data in the UI and reducing boilerplate.
Use cases and target users
- Building SPAs, mobile hybrid apps, or UIs that frequently interact with backends
- Frontend engineers, full-stack developers, and teams looking to improve data fetching reliability and developer productivity
Core features and benefits
- Automatic caching and background updates: improves responsiveness and user experience
- Request deduplication, retries, and invalidation strategies: cuts unnecessary requests and boosts stability
- Optimistic updates and mutation management: supports transactional updates and rollbacks
- Pagination/infinite loading, SSR support, and TypeScript-friendly
- Cross-framework adapters: implementations for React/Vue/Solid, with a mature ecosystem and DevTools debugging support