TanStack Query Integration for PowerSync

@powersync/tanstack-react-query provides seamless integration between PowerSync's Web SDK and TanStack Query for React. It wraps TanStack's useQuery and useSuspenseQuery hooks to work easily with PowerSync's SQL queries. This combines PowerSync's existing watched queries with TanStack Query's features like the paginated queries, caching, and Suspense.

Note: Alpha Release

This package is currently in an alpha release.

Getting Started

To use @powersync/tanstack-react-query, you need to set up both the PowerSyncContext and the TanStack QueryClientProvider in your application.

// App.jsx
import { PowerSyncDatabase } from '@powersync/web';
// or for React Native
// import { PowerSyncDatabase } from '@powersync/react-native';

import { PowerSyncContext } from "@powersync/react";
import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from '@tanstack/react-query';


export const App = () => {
    const powerSync = React.useMemo(() => {
        // Set up PowerSync client
    }, [])
    const queryClient = React.useMemo(() => new QueryClient(), [])

  return (
    <PowerSyncContext.Provider value={powerSync}>
      <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>
        {/** Your components go here */}
      </QueryClientProvider>
    </PowerSyncContext.Provider>
  );
};

Usage

useQuery

The useQuery hook from @powersync/tanstack-react-query works similarly to the standard TanStack React Query useQuery hook but integrates with PowerSync for watched query functionality. Queries automatically update when dependent tables change.

// TodoListDisplay.jsx
import { useQuery } from '@powersync/tanstack-react-query';

export const TodoListDisplay = () => {
  const { data: todoLists, isLoading, isFetching, error } = useQuery({
    queryKey: ['todoLists'],
    query: 'SELECT * FROM lists WHERE id = ?', // use `query` instead of `queryFn` to define a SQL query - this allows watching underlying tables for changes
    parameters: ['id-1'], // supply query parameters for the SQL query
  });

  if (isLoading) {
    return <div>Loading todo lists...</div>;
  }

  if (error) {
    return <div>Error loading todo lists: {error.message}</div>;
  }

  return (
    <ul>
      {todoLists?.map((list) => (
        <li key={list.id}>{list.name}</li>
      ))}
    </ul>
  );
};

useSuspenseQuery

If you prefer to use React’s Suspense for data fetching, you can use the useSuspenseQuery hook.

// TodoListDisplaySuspense.jsx
import { Suspense } from 'react';
import { useSuspenseQuery } from '@powersync/tanstack-react-query';

const TodoListContent = () => {
  const { data: todoLists } = useSuspenseQuery({
    queryKey: ['todoLists'],
    query: 'SELECT * FROM lists',
  });

  return (
    <ul>
      {todoLists.map((list) => (
        <li key={list.id}>{list.name}</li>
      ))}
    </ul>
  );
};


export const TodoListDisplaySuspense = () => {
  return (
    /* Will show fallback while query is loading */
    <Suspense fallback={<div>Loading todo lists...</div>}>
      <TodoListContent />
    </Suspense>
  );
};

TypeScript Support

A type can be specified for each row returned by useQuery and useSuspenseQuery.

// TodoListDisplay.tsx
const TodoListContent = () => {
const { data } = useQuery<{ id: string, name: string }>({
    queryKey: ['todoLists'],
     query: 'SELECT * FROM lists',
});

const { data: todoListsSuspense } = useSuspenseQuery<{ id: string, name: string }>({
    queryKey: ['todoListsSuspense'],
    query: 'SELECT * FROM lists',
});

return <></>
}

Kysely Support

You are also able to use a compilable query (e.g. Kysely queries) as a query argument in place of a SQL statement string.

// TodoListDisplay.tsx
import { useQuery } from '@powersync/tanstack-react-query';

export const TodoListDisplay = () => {
  const { data: todoLists, isLoading, error } = useQuery({
    queryKey: ['todoLists'],
    query: kyselyDb.selectFrom('lists').selectAll(), // The type of the rows in `data` are inferred from the Kysely query
  });

  if (isLoading) {
    return <div>Loading todo lists...</div>;
  }

  if (error) {
    return <div>Error loading todo lists: {error.message}</div>;
  }

  return (
    <ul>
      {todoLists?.map((list) => (
        <li key={list.id}>{list.name}</li>
      ))}
    </ul>
  );
};