useMutation
useMutation is a TanStack Query hook for executing server-side data mutations and exposing their status and operations.
React Hooks in Action: With Suspense and Concurrent Mode
useMutation is a React Query hook that coordinates an operation for changing server-side data and exposes its execution state.
- How it is used
- Uses React Query to submit server changes from forms and synchronize the resulting state with the application UI.
- How deep it goes
- Explains mutation functions, execution status, success callbacks, cache updates, and navigation, but leaves edit and delete implementations as challenges.
- Examples
- Demonstrates creating a bookable, appending it to the bookables cache, navigating to it, and extending the pattern to edit and delete actions.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via React Query to build form-driven server updates and reflect successful changes in cached data and navigation.
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React in Depth
useMutation is a TanStack Query hook that performs a server-side mutation and exposes its mutation state and operations.
- How it is used
- Runs server-changing operations and coordinates their effects on cached remote data.
- How deep it goes
- Works through triggering a mutation, invalidating query keys, and writing returned data to the cache; does not detail mutation-state properties.
- Examples
- Uses customer deletion, a reusable add operation, and resource-specific cache updates after an increment.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via TanStack Query to trigger server changes and keep affected queries fresh through invalidation or direct cache writes.
Related concepts
- TanStack Queryuses · TanStack Query is a library for fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating asynchronous server state.
- cachinguses · Caching is the practice of storing reusable data or computation results so later access can avoid repeating retrieval or computation.
- React Queryused by · React Query is a library for fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating asynchronous server state in React applications.
- SQLcontrasts with · SQL is a standardized declarative language for defining, querying, and manipulating data and structures in relational database systems.
- useQueryalternative to · useQuery is a TanStack Query hook for asynchronously fetching and caching data while exposing its data, status, and error state.
- serveruses · A server is a computer system or software process that receives requests from clients or other systems and provides resources, data, or services in response.
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