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Data Loading

Utilities for loading and managing data

Data Loading Ratios Over Time

TanStack Query continues its growth trajectory, both in terms of usage and positivity. The interest graph in particular reveals that –along with tRPC– it's pretty much the only data loading library that is still intriguing respondents today!

Apollo Client
Relay
RTK Query
SWR
TanStack Query
tRPC
Fetch
Axios

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Proportion of respondents having used an item
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2023
2024
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Number of Items

How many items in this category respondents have used.

0%
4%
9%
13%
18%
22%
1

0

1,668
2

1

353
3

2

1,180
4

3

1,727
5

4

1,525
6

5

883
7

6

398
8

7

113
9

8

23
0%
4%
9%
13%
18%
22%
% of survey respondents

Other Data Loading Libraries

Besides ky and URQL, no new data loading library scored more than the minimum 10 mention threshold.

What other libraries have you used for data loading?
Freeform
Multiple
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100%
1

2

3

4

5

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 164
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% of question respondents
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Data Loading Pain Points

What pain points have you encountered related to data loading?
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Multiple
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100%
1

State management (useState, Redux, Context, etc.)

2

Caching

3

Error handling

4

cache_issues

5

Apollo issues

6

Excessive complexity

7

Other Answers

Answers matching “Other Answers” 211
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