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React Query Context Drift

react-query-context-drift

Cache-bound query/update calls and derived state break when function context, argument names, or expected hook-managed data semantics drift: invalidations run without QueryClient context, cache keys mismatch, and refetches overwrite local selections while types silently mislead.

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Updated8/3/2026

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Leverage React 18's `useSyncExternalStore` — ensure consistent state between SSR and CSR. Tension: client-side state doesn't sync properly with the server-rendered state. Outcome: to ensure consistent state between SSR and CSR.

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Update the `useEffect` hook to use a dependency on the `projectIdStorage` value — const projectIdStorage = useProjectStore((state) => state.projectIdStorage);. Tension: Both `onServerCode` and `onServerRecommendation` have a stale closure over the initial `projectIdStorage` state. Outcome: so that the server event handlers have the current project id value.

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Instead of `useRef`, we can change it to `useState` — for a DOM node that may not exist or change during the component's render. Tension: so that we can track ref changes in the state and trigger re-renders as needed.

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You should really use tag validation to trigger your query endpoints to refetch upon any successful mutation. — onSuccess: async () => { await queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ["vehicle.getVehiclesWithMakes"],. Tension: Both are less than ideal. Outcome: await queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ["vehicle.getVehiclesWithMakes"], // <-- invalidates tag key });.

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handle a scenario when the code is fine but backend went offline — prefetching data with usePrefetchQuery. Tension: prefetch works.

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Checkout react-query documentation - https://tanstack.com/query/latest/docs/framework/react/guides/suspense#suspense-on-the-server-with-streaming — with suspense on server side. Tension: this working with suspense on server side. Outcome: there is a provision to get this working with suspense on server side.

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Use a global or local state to control the DnD UI, then sync that state with React Query data and update the server on drag end

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make sure that the form component is only rendered after data is ready — Decouple the data fetching component from the form component. Tension: background refetches will not be reflected. Outcome: if your cache already has stale data when `App` mounts, you'll get that data in your state.

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I try putting a setName(data.name) inside a useEffect that runs only when "isLoading" changes, and it works — edit/change the "name" retrieved by the query. Tension: I would think there is a better and more clean way to do it. Outcome: use a `useEffect` hook to "synchronize" a React state to an external source.

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An alternative would be to lift the query up higher in the ReactTree — conditionally render the child component with the fetched `name` as a prop. Tension: useState(props.name).

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Tension: despite that being what the react-query docs suggested. Outcome: This solved the type errors too.

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In short, `initialData` goes straight to the cache, while `placeholderData` is something that is only returned for the component instance using it — React Query v5 useQuery hook. Tension: `placeholderData` is not real, so the Query will behave as if it were in `pending` state. Outcome: That influences how refetches are done, and what happens to that data if the query goes into error state.

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Call `trpc...useQuery` at the component top level, destructure `{ data }`, and then use `useEffect` (or derived rendering) to react to changes in `data`. Optionally control execution with query options (e.g., enabling based on `activeChildId`) instead of wrapping the hook call in `useEffect`.

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Setting `cacheTime: 0` solved it for me. — I was getting the same issue using `@tanstack/react-query@4.36.1`. Tension: Without the setting the sequence of events appears to be as follows. Outcome: In version 5, `cacheTime` has been renamed to `gcTime`.

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setQueryData(['todo', todo.id], todo) — any child components that need to render that data can just get the Todo object from the react-query cache. Tension: with only the `id` field being passed as a prop. Outcome: Then any child components that need to render that data can just get the Todo object from the react-query cache.

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I think you can achieve that by using the `ensureQueryData` function. Tension: This way you first check on cache for the given key, and if nothing is found it runs the function and returns the result. Outcome: Another option could be to by making a custom hook use `getQueryData` to read the cache and if nothing is found it will return undefined so you could manage to call to your api.

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Create a memoized router context object from the app context and call `router.invalidate()` in a `useEffect` when that memoized object changes, so `beforeLoad`/`loader` rerun with the updated data.

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Align Tanstack Query package versions per the official React Query SSR/Next.js guide and use the correct SSR hydration components (Hydrate/DehydratedState/QueryClientProvider) as shown in the documentation.

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Wrap you components that rely on React Query data — React Query data. Outcome: with Suspense and HydrationBoundary.

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Lift mutation state to a shared owner (same parent) or to shared global/local state (React Context/Redux or local state in a shared parent), and update that state inside `onSuccess`/`onError`/`onSettled` (or `isPending`) callbacks; alternatively, read mutation status via the same `useMutation` instance passed/shared with the other component.

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Use Next.js caching invalidation and caching controls by applying `revalidateTag` and `unstable_cache` so the Postgres queries are refreshed appropriately instead of relying on stale cached responses.

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No ref to prevent redundant state updates — `setState` inside an observer callback that runs on every scroll event. Tension: React still processes the `setState` call even if the value is the same. Outcome: const lastIdRef = useRef(null);.

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Call each RTK Query hook with the exact same query arguments (or none, if the endpoint takes none) that the fulfilled requests use, and ensure components read the correct hook data/selector result corresponding to those cache entries.

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Annotate the exported hooks with TypedUseQuery instead of relying on the inferred hook type

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Move `useSQLiteContext` to the React component, obtain the SQLite DB instance there, and pass the DB instance (or data) into the thunk as an argument. Ensure the thunk action payload contains only serializable data.

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Tension: cannot itself access any Redux context because none is provided to it from higher up the ReactTree. Outcome: so it can access the provided Redux context.

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Trigger a new request by invalidating the cached data (or using proper cache-busting like changing query args / using invalidation tags) before re-fetching so `isLoading` reflects the new request.

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Another way is by using `React context` — If you can't modify your `LegacyComponent`, then you need another way of passing data from parent to child. Tension: props is one way for doing this. Another way is by using `React context`. Outcome: const DataContext = React.createContext().

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Update the Context state from within the SignalR handler by invoking context methods (e.g., incorporating/using the patrols and update functions directly in the SignalR call path) so the global state is actually changed when messages arrive.

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Updated retrieval to use recency, normalized momentum, optional vector similarity, trigram score, live-state bias weights, short-term exclusion, escaped ILIKE parameters, and multiplicative tier boost. — Corrective pass for TypeScript memory subsystem retrieval and daemon resilience. Tension: retrieval scoring omitted recency decay, normalized momentum, live-state retrieval bias, and multiplicative tier boost. Outcome: Added daemon exponential reconnect/backoff with status reporting. Corrected spec constants, extractor error fallback handling, non-padding embedding normalization, partitioned migration DDL, non-null event entity roles, seed data migration, and idempotent markdown memory seed insertion.

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