Front-end

While useQuery (as I wrote in a previous post) handles GET requests beautifully, useMutation is designed for operations that change data on the server—creating, updating, or deleting resources. Without useMutation: The Manual Way Problems with this approach: With useMutation: The Clean Way Here’s a typical implementation: Problems with this approach: The New Way: TanStack Query […]

If you’ve been fetching data in React with useEffect and manual state management, you’ve probably written code like this dozens of times: It works, but it’s verbose, error-prone, and lacks features modern apps need like caching, automatic refetching, and request deduplication. The Old Way: useEffect + fetch The traditional approach requires manually managing three pieces