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Integrating the SWR library with a type-safe API client

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses the integration of the SWR library, which stands for "stale while revalidate," into a type-safe API client for managing data loading in React applications. It highlights the benefits and drawbacks of using the custom `useFetchData` hook before transitioning to SWR. The author then explores different approaches to maintain type safety with SWR, such as code generation and generics. Ultimately, they opted for a generic approach that leverages TypeScript's powerful features. The resulting implementation provides both type safety and the benefits of SWR, such as fewer requests and faster page rendering.

Company
Incident.io

Date published
Aug. 23, 2023

Author(s)
Isaac Seymour

Word count
1628

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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