effector-react VS react-query

In its docs, Astro recommends nanostores, but I’ve used effector in the past. And LOVED IT. So I’ve used it for this project as well.

I've been using effector, together with the apollo-client for the last few years and, while it works, it's completely detached from the actual screens. In other words, you need to fetch everything (at startup) you might use at some point and it stays in the memory for the entire duration of the session. Error handling is also tricky as you need to explicitly subscribe to the specific error stores in order to render them. And, if something goes wrong, it's tricky to tell what data is actually used in the current screen, so it's almost impossible to do the Retry efficiently. OTOH the screens are nice and simple - no spinners, the data is just there, thus the app feels (and is) fast.

Actually, Svelte uses Effector for state management under the hood. You can read more about it here: https://effector.dev/. It also has bindings for other frameworks including React, Vue and Solid. Effector is a little not beginner-friendly, but once you truly understand it, Effector becomes a very powerful.

A state-management library.

Effector it is the another way to create state and business logic for your frontend application.

https://effector.dev/ here you go

Then I found Effector which seems to have the same features, and SolidJs support.

Where’s effector?

https://ngneat.github.io/elf/ https://effector.dev/

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