@trpc/react-query

What is @trpc/react-query?

@trpc/react-query is a package that integrates tRPC with React Query, allowing you to create type-safe APIs and use them in your React applications with ease. It provides a seamless way to fetch, cache, and synchronize server data with your client-side state.

What are @trpc/react-query's main functionalities?

Type-safe API calls

This feature allows you to make type-safe API calls using tRPC and React Query. The `useQuery` hook fetches data from the server and provides loading and error states.

import { createReactQueryHooks } from '@trpc/react-query';
import { AppRouter } from './server/router';

const trpc = createReactQueryHooks<AppRouter>();

function MyComponent() {
  const { data, error, isLoading } = trpc.useQuery(['getUser', { id: 1 }]);

  if (isLoading) return <div>Loading...</div>;
  if (error) return <div>Error: {error.message}</div>;

  return <div>User: {data.name}</div>;
}

Mutations

This feature allows you to perform mutations, such as creating or updating data on the server. The `useMutation` hook provides methods to trigger the mutation and handle its result.

function MyComponent() {
  const mutation = trpc.useMutation('createUser');

  const handleCreateUser = async () => {
    try {
      await mutation.mutateAsync({ name: 'John Doe' });
      alert('User created successfully');
    } catch (error) {
      alert('Error creating user: ' + error.message);
    }
  };

  return <button onClick={handleCreateUser}>Create User</button>;
}

Optimistic Updates

This feature allows you to perform optimistic updates, where the UI is updated immediately while the mutation is being processed. The `onMutate`, `onError`, and `onSettled` callbacks help manage the optimistic update lifecycle.

function MyComponent() {
  const queryClient = useQueryClient();
  const mutation = trpc.useMutation('updateUser', {
    onMutate: async (newData) => {
      await queryClient.cancelQueries(['getUser', { id: newData.id }]);
      const previousData = queryClient.getQueryData(['getUser', { id: newData.id }]);
      queryClient.setQueryData(['getUser', { id: newData.id }], newData);
      return { previousData };
    },
    onError: (err, newData, context) => {
      queryClient.setQueryData(['getUser', { id: newData.id }], context.previousData);
    },
    onSettled: () => {
      queryClient.invalidateQueries(['getUser', { id: newData.id }]);
    }
  });

  const handleUpdateUser = async () => {
    await mutation.mutateAsync({ id: 1, name: 'Jane Doe' });
  };

  return <button onClick={handleUpdateUser}>Update User</button>;
}

Other packages similar to @trpc/react-query

react-query

React Query is a powerful data-fetching library for React applications. It provides hooks for fetching, caching, and synchronizing server data with client-side state. Unlike @trpc/react-query, it does not provide built-in type safety or integration with tRPC.

apollo-client

Apollo Client is a comprehensive state management library for JavaScript that enables you to manage both local and remote data with GraphQL. It offers features like caching, optimistic UI, and subscriptions. Unlike @trpc/react-query, it uses GraphQL instead of tRPC for API interactions.

swr

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README

End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy

@trpc/react

Connect a tRPC server to React.

Documentation

Full documentation for @trpc/react-query can be found here

Installation

# npm
npm install @trpc/react-query @tanstack/react-query

# Yarn
yarn add @trpc/react-query @tanstack/react-query

# pnpm
pnpm add @trpc/react-query @tanstack/react-query

Basic Example

Create a utils file that exports tRPC hooks and providers.

import { createReactQueryHooks, createTRPCReact } from '@trpc/react-query';
import type { AppRouter } from './server';

export const trpc = createTRPCReact<AppRouter>();

Use the provider to connect to your API.

import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from '@tanstack/react-query';
import React from 'react';
import { useState } from 'react';
import { trpc } from '~/utils/trpc';

export function App() {
  const [queryClient] = useState(() => new QueryClient());
  const [trpcClient] = useState(() =>
    trpc.createClient({
      url: 'http://localhost:5000/trpc',
    }),
  );
  return (
    <trpc.Provider client={trpcClient} queryClient={queryClient}>
      <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>
        {/* Your app here */}
      </QueryClientProvider>
    </trpc.Provider>
  );
}

Now in any component, you can query your API using the proxy exported from the utils file.

import { proxy } from '~/utils/trpc';

export function Hello() {
  const { data, error, status } = proxy.greeting.useQuery({ name: 'tRPC' });

  if (error) {
    return <p>{error.message}</p>;
  }

  if (status !== 'success') {
    return <p>Loading...</p>;
  }

  return <div>{data && <p>{data.greeting}</p>}</div>;
}