TanStack Query
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
Oct 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Nextjs, oRPC, Next-Intl, Zod, Tanstack Form, Tanstack Query, Drizzle, SQLite, Tiptap, Better-Auth, Jest, Tailwind, a heavily customized Shadcn.”
2-person startup, education SaaSon “The Modern React Stack Explained for 2026”
“I think tanstack query already does all the hard part. I feel like people under-use react query”
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“React Query at least gives you an `initialData` option”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) 1 mention
- The Modern React Stack Explained for 2026 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager 1 mention
Data: tanstack-query.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 15
“TanStack Query, Tailwind CSS”
“TanStack Query”
“TanStack Query”
“Nextjs, oRPC, Next-Intl, Zod, Tanstack Form, Tanstack Query, Drizzle, SQLite, Tiptap, Better-Auth, Jest, Tailwind, a heavily customized Shadcn.”
“TanStack Query”
“Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, ShadCN, React Query (Tanstack)”
“Stack: TypeScript, React, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, AG Grid, TanStack Query, Drizzle, PostgreSQL, Python (FastAPI), Node.js, Docker.”
“I think tanstack query already does all the hard part. I feel like people under-use react query”
“TanStack Query is the newer name for the library FKA react-query.”
“TanStack Query”
“via react-query useQuery/useMutation”
“React Query at least gives you an `initialData` option”
“specifically React/TS, TanStack Query, Orval, and Shadcn”
“React Query is now the default standard data fetching tool”
“We use Tanstack Query for data fetching”