react-firebase-hooks VS react-query

A little bit fatter in terms of size and not actively maintained.

React-firebase-hooks

I'm trying to figure out how to use react-firebase-hooks in my react app so that I can simplify calls on my database.

You also might benefit from leveraging react-firebase-hooks. I’ve been really liking using it. https://github.com/csfrequency/react-firebase-hooks

For a good while, I've been relying on a little package called react-firebase-hooks to turn my Firebase realtime document fetching into tidy hooks. However, this library has become a bit sketchy since the release of Firebase v9 a.k.a the Modular edition.

For example, this issue, this issue, is already handled out of the box - and a lot of the other ones are already solved since React Query does all of the hard work.

If you want, you can use useFirebaseAuth which takes care of onAuthStateChanged for you in a clean and simple way. That library also has useful hooks for working with Firestore and RTB.

I believe this should be fixed soon, as chrisbianca says on Github https://github.com/CSFrequency/react-firebase-hooks/issues/104#issuecomment-778586537

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