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Abhay Singh Kathayat @abhaysingh281

SWR (Stale-While-Revalidate) In React: Efficient Data Fetching

SWR (Stale-While-Revalidate) is a React hook library for optimized data fetching & caching, providing stale data while revalidating in background.

SWR (Stale-While-Revalidate) in React

SWR is a React hook library for data fetching that stands for "Stale-While-Revalidate." It provides an elegant and optimized solution to handle remote data fetching, caching, and revalidation. It allows you to fetch data while showing stale (cached) data from a previous request, and then revalidate the data by fetching the latest data in the background without blocking the UI. This ensures that the user sees immediate feedback while still getting fresh data.
SWR is widely used in React applications for data fetching because it provides an easy-to-use, hig...