next-connect VS react-query

Try next-connect

Same. I found this example [1] particularly helpful, although I don't know how good this [2] library it uses is. Overall, I've seen multiple OSS projects [3] that try to support a missing functionality in Next.js seem to just give up trying to keep up with their breaking changes.

[1] https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-mwzv1t?file=README.md

[2] https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect

[3] https://github.com/cyrilwanner/next-optimized-images

import { getMongoClient } from 'lib/mongodb'; async function createHandler(req, res) { const { text } = req.body; const createdAt = new Date(); if (!text) { res.status(400).json({ message: 'Validation errors', errors: { text: ['Please add a text value'], }, }); return; } const goals = (await getMongoClient()).db.collection('goals'); const { insertedId: _id } = await goals.insertOne({ text, createdAt, }); res .status(201) .json({ _id, text, createdAt }); } async function listHandler(req, res) { const goals = (await getMongoClient()).db.collection('goals'); const list = []; const cursor = goals.find({}, { sort: { createdAt: 1 }, }); if ((await goals.estimatedDocumentCount()) === 0) { res.status(204).send(undefined); return; } while (await cursor.hasNext()) { const goal = await cursor.next(); list.push(goal); } res.json(list); } // Instead of this you should use https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect export default function handler(req, res) { if (req.method === 'POST') { createHandler(req, res); } else { listHandler(req, res); } }

Interesting approach. I am personally not a fan of how it plays out. I think next-connect provides a cleaner approach to this problem. https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect

Hey, thanks for the feedback! The genesis of this library is that I used next-connect in one of my apps but I personally didn't like combining routing with middleware layer and I had some issue related to matching although I wasn't matching multiple routes in one file. I didn't find workaround to this and honestly I didn't had motivation to search more. Instead I thought making utility for middleware that would fit to my needs would be really cool thing, and extracting it from my app source to separate public library would be even cooler since I'm beginner open sourcerer but i plan to go further into this direction so I guess its a good start 😄

I think what you're looking for is a way to access your DB via middleware, if so take a look at: https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect.

I use next-connect to use connect-like middlewares. A traditional API route handler in Next.js is like:

Are you trying to run some middleware before the api functions? If so, this may help next-connect

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