---
title: "Cleaner data fetching with react-query"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/cleaner-data-fetching-with-react-query-jkx72lwtw
source_url: https://dev.to/sidv93/cleaner-data-fetching-with-react-query-4klg
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2021-08-15T21:25:22.264Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["react", "react-query"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 38
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Cleaner data fetching with react-query

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 5 min read · 38 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

React-query provides a way of maintaining a global context of server state. It also provides an excellent caching solution with minimal configuration. Data-fetching is something I feel does not get the importance and limelight as say state management in the React world. If handled properly, we can even get rid of client side state management solutions.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@thetecguy** · 1 upvotes

> If you are using redux with redux-toolkit it might also be worth looking into their lately released redux-toolkit query. It is build into redux-toolkit so no extra dependency.  Also their caching and re-fetching strategy is quite powerful. https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/overview

**@touqeeraslamdev** · 0 upvotes

> fantastic

**@lorezz** · 0 upvotes

> Great, i usually use swr, but react query seems more versatile, thank you

**@dgesteves** · 0 upvotes

> good article.

**@hulkkamedise** · 0 upvotes

> Informative, Good article.

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