🔄React Query vs SWR⚡
React Query is a full-featured async state manager, while SWR is a lean, focused data-fetching hook. Comprehensive power versus minimal simplicity.
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🔄React Query
- ✓Rich feature set with mutations and devtools
- ✓Powerful caching, invalidation and background sync
- ✓Great for complex data and offline scenarios
- ✓Strong support for optimistic updates
⚡SWR
- ✓Tiny, focused and easy to learn
- ✓Simple stale-while-revalidate model
- ✓Minimal API with great defaults
- ✓Maintained by the Vercel team
Verdict
Pick React Query for complex apps needing rich caching, mutations and devtools. Pick SWR for a lean, simple data-fetching hook with minimal overhead.
Frequently asked
Is React Query bigger than SWR?+
Yes — React Query is larger but offers far more features like mutations and devtools.
Which is easier to learn?+
SWR's minimal API is quicker to pick up for simple data fetching.
Which handles mutations better?+
React Query has more comprehensive built-in mutation support.
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