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From the Next.js folks comes SWR, a React Hooks library for data fetching built on Suspense: The name “SWR” is derived from stale-while-revalidate, a cache invalidation strategy popularized by HTTP RFC 5861. SWR first returns the data from cache (stale), then sends the fetch request (revalidate), and finally comes with the up-to-date data again. It …
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Adam Rackis has written an extensive article on React Suspense for CSS-Tricks: This post is about understanding how Suspense works, what it does, and seeing how it can integrate into a real web app. We’ll look at how to integrate routing and data loading with Suspense in React. React Suspense in Practice → 📽 If …
Dmitri Pavlutin has compared the several ways to fecthing data in React. Lifecycle methods had been for a long time the only solution to fetching. However fetching using them has problems with lots of boilerplate code, duplication, and reusability difficulties. Fetching using hooks is a better alternative: way less boilerplate code. Suspense’s benefit is declarative …
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