📄 tanstack/query/v5/docs/reference/focusManager

File: focusManager.md | Updated: 11/15/2025

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The FocusManager manages the focus state within TanStack Query.

It can be used to change the default event listeners or to manually change the focus state.

Its available methods are:

focusManager.setEventListener
-----------------------------

setEventListener can be used to set a custom event listener:

tsx

import { focusManager } from '@tanstack/react-query'

focusManager.setEventListener((handleFocus) => {
  // Listen to visibilitychange
  if (typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.addEventListener) {
    window.addEventListener('visibilitychange', handleFocus, false)
  }

  return () => {
    // Be sure to unsubscribe if a new handler is set
    window.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', handleFocus)
  }
})


import { focusManager } from '@tanstack/react-query'

focusManager.setEventListener((handleFocus) => {
  // Listen to visibilitychange
  if (typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.addEventListener) {
    window.addEventListener('visibilitychange', handleFocus, false)
  }

  return () => {
    // Be sure to unsubscribe if a new handler is set
    window.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', handleFocus)
  }
})

focusManager.subscribe
----------------------

subscribe can be used to subscribe to changes in the visibility state. It returns an unsubscribe function:

tsx

import { focusManager } from '@tanstack/react-query'

const unsubscribe = focusManager.subscribe((isVisible) => {
  console.log('isVisible', isVisible)
})


import { focusManager } from '@tanstack/react-query'

const unsubscribe = focusManager.subscribe((isVisible) => {
  console.log('isVisible', isVisible)
})

focusManager.setFocused
-----------------------

setFocused can be used to manually set the focus state. Set undefined to fall back to the default focus check.

tsx

import { focusManager } from '@tanstack/react-query'

// Set focused
focusManager.setFocused(true)

// Set unfocused
focusManager.setFocused(false)

// Fallback to the default focus check
focusManager.setFocused(undefined)


import { focusManager } from '@tanstack/react-query'

// Set focused
focusManager.setFocused(true)

// Set unfocused
focusManager.setFocused(false)

// Fallback to the default focus check
focusManager.setFocused(undefined)

Options

  • focused: boolean | undefined

focusManager.isFocused
----------------------

isFocused can be used to get the current focus state.

tsx

const isFocused = focusManager.isFocused()


const isFocused = focusManager.isFocused()

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