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My component has a useEffect, a loading flag, an error flag, and a data field, and I rewrite the same four lines in every component that talks to the server.
What you'll have at the end
A data-fetching hook rewritten around useQuery, the old loading, error, and data fields deleted, and the stale-response race condition gone because the cache holds each search term's result under its own key, never mixing one term's answer into another's.
You need
A React hook or component that fetches data with a plain fetch call inside a useEffect, tracking the request by hand with a loading flag, an error flag, and a data field, that re-runs whenever one of its own arguments changes.
Not covered
Writing data back to the server with useMutation, and paginating a large result set with useInfiniteQuery; both start from the useQuery hook this recipe ends with.
Leans on
Make a save action optimistic with TanStack Query
for writing data back to the server with useMutation, once the reads in this recipe are already on useQuery
Page through a long feed instead of loading it all at once
for a result set too large to fetch in one call, once the single-page version here is working
Checked 22 Aug 2026
Part of the Frontend State Management Beyond Redux cookbook