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If you're lucky enough, you may know enough about what your users will do to be able to prefetch the data they need before it's needed! If this is the case, you can use the prefetchQuery method to prefetch the results of a query to be placed into the cache:

tsx

const prefetchTodos = async () => {
  // The results of this query will be cached like a normal query
  await queryClient.prefetchQuery({
    queryKey: ['todos'],
    queryFn: fetchTodos,
  })
}


const prefetchTodos = async () => {
  // The results of this query will be cached like a normal query
  await queryClient.prefetchQuery({
    queryKey: ['todos'],
    queryFn: fetchTodos,
  })
}
  • If fresh data for this query is already in the cache, the data will not be fetched
  • If a staleTime is passed eg. prefetchQuery({ queryKey: ['todos'], queryFn: fn, staleTime: 5000 }) and the data is older than the specified staleTime, the query will be fetched
  • If no instances of useQuery appear for a prefetched query, it will be deleted and garbage collected after the time specified in gcTime.

Prefetching Infinite Queries
----------------------------

Infinite Queries can be prefetched like regular Queries. Per default, only the first page of the Query will be prefetched and will be stored under the given QueryKey. If you want to prefetch more than one page, you can use the pages option, in which case you also have to provide a getNextPageParam function:

tsx

const prefetchProjects = async () => {
  // The results of this query will be cached like a normal query
  await queryClient.prefetchInfiniteQuery({
    queryKey: ['projects'],
    queryFn: fetchProjects,
    initialPageParam: 0,
    getNextPageParam: (lastPage, pages) => lastPage.nextCursor,
    pages: 3, // prefetch the first 3 pages
  })
}


const prefetchProjects = async () => {
  // The results of this query will be cached like a normal query
  await queryClient.prefetchInfiniteQuery({
    queryKey: ['projects'],
    queryFn: fetchProjects,
    initialPageParam: 0,
    getNextPageParam: (lastPage, pages) => lastPage.nextCursor,
    pages: 3, // prefetch the first 3 pages
  })
}

The above code will try to prefetch 3 pages in order, and getNextPageParam will be executed for each page to determine the next page to prefetch. If getNextPageParam returns undefined, the prefetching will stop.

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