django-channels VS react-query

Channels Medium Article

WebSockets or MQTT. If you’re open to Python and Django as a framework, check out Django Channels.

Creating a PWA is not like playing a card that wins the game. Moreover, users do not yet know the potential or do not know that they can be installed so they have a bit of a hard time catching on. At the moment I use Django + HTMX + AlpineJS to build my applications. This stack allows you to use WebSockets, but HTMX is not yet very mature in this respect. If you aim to create something complex on the user experience side, I have used the Django (+ Django rest framework) + React stack for years. It's good but it takes time both for creating things and to master it. Maybe you want to check out Django Channels too https://github.com/django/channels

Use Django channels package. I'm not very convinced for these reasons:

github issue

One program I sorta like is channels. You may have some luck searching for python example repositories (IIRC there is at least one project like this, with the structure and explaining what each stuff does, give preference to more recent projects as packaging is something that went through a lot of changes in the recent years).

Extra background information: * https://stackoverflow.com/a/49043121/1842286 * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62199335/django-session-is-not-being-persisted-and-cookie-is-not-being-set-when-using-dja * https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1425 * https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1402 * https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1096

react-query

React Query: This library makes it easy to manage data in your React applications, from fetching to caching and updating data. It offers a simple, powerful, and flexible API for handling data and keeping your UI in sync with your data. https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-query

useQuery (react-query) (+) all from above (+) even more features (-) more complex, even the examples are complex, has more aggressive defaults (re-fetching every 2s)

see here Overview

Rapini is a new tool that can generate custom React Query hooks using OpenAPI (Swagger) files.

React Query is the gold standard for using async data declaratively with hooks. I ended up needing to modify even my simple useTimer hook to work more like useQuery to take multiple keys in order to work as an inner observable for other operators.

For most situations, I would recommend using a library like React Query. It handles a lot of common data-fetching boiler plate and already accounts for this useEffect() issue. Also, it supports Suspense if you want to use that.

At this point, I want to move on to the react-query cache management library. Give a brief overview and see how you can improve your developer experience with cache using this library.

There isn't the "service" concept in React. If you need to send off data you can just do so with fetch. If you need to load data and cache it so it can be used across components and unmounts, then something like react-query is what I'd recommend. But it's basically a combination of React Context, useEffect, and useState to manage the cache and lifecycle of a request.

react-query is pretty neat too. I default to that for most projects unless it's something unusual