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With the rise of frameworks, such as React, Vue or Angular, the way websites are built changed over the years. Modern applications can be very dynamic and perform multiple API requests to populate a website with fresh content or submit new data to a server. However, this paradigm shift introduced new problems developers need to deal with. When an API request is pending, succeeds, or fails, a user should be presented with meaningful feedback. Other problems can comprise API data caching or syncing the client state with the server. All of these problems require solutions that need to be coded, but these can quickly get out of hand and result in a codebase that is hard to extend and maintain. In this workshop, we will cover how to handle API requests, API states and request cancellation by implementing an API Layer and combining it with React-Query.
Prerequisites:
To make the most out of this workshop, you should be familiar with React and Hooks, such as useState, useEffect, etc. If you would like to code along, make sure you have Git, a code editor, Node, and npm installed on your machine.
This workshop has been presented at React Advanced Conference 2022, check out the latest edition of this React Conference.
FAQ
The 'React Router Loaders and Actions' feature is used for pre-fetching data before a component is rendered. It helps in avoiding the waterfall effect of sequential requests, allowing for simultaneous data fetching and faster rendering of components.
In React Router, you can handle errors by specifying an error element in your route configuration. This element will be rendered if there's an error during the loader or action processes.
Yes, React Query can be integrated with React Router for data fetching. This combination allows you to leverage React Query's caching and state management features along with React Router's navigation capabilities.
The 'useNavigation' hook in React Router is used to access the navigation state of a route. It provides information about ongoing navigation actions, such as whether a navigation action is currently loading, allowing for conditional rendering based on the navigation state.
React Query provides features like caching, automatic refetching, and synchronization, which help in managing server state in React applications efficiently. It reduces the need to manage these aspects manually, leading to cleaner and more maintainable code.
Error boundaries in React are components that catch JavaScript errors anywhere in their child component tree, log those errors, and display a fallback UI instead of the component tree that crashed. They are ideal for handling errors in production and improving the user experience.
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