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Hooks for managing, caching and syncing asynchronous and remote data in React
Composable charting components for React — build line, bar, pie, and area charts from SVG with a declarative JSX API.
| Metric | react-query | recharts |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm | npm |
| Difficulty | Beginner | Beginner |
| Weekly downloads | 1.6M | 3.2M↑ |
| Latest version | v3.39.3 | v2.15.0 |
| Recipes | 1 | 1 |
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Use React Query for any React app that fetches server data: REST APIs, GraphQL, or any async function. It replaces 95% of the useEffect+useState patterns for data fetching and adds caching, background refetching, and optimistic updates for free.
Dashboards, analytics pages, standard business charts in React apps, any time you want good-looking charts without a steep learning curve.
React Query is for server state (data that lives on a server). For UI state (modals, form values, local toggles), use useState or Zustand. If you're already using a full data layer like Apollo Client for GraphQL, React Query is redundant.
Custom/unusual visualizations (use d3), non-React projects (use Chart.js), performance-critical charts with 100k+ data points (Canvas-based charts are faster).
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recharts