Data & Server State

Fetching, caching, and modeling server data on the client.

Part: 03 · Application Architecture · Priority: Critical

Published articles

• Fetch-on-Render vs Render-as-You-Fetch
• Parallel vs Waterfall Requests
• Request Deduplication
• Data Prefetching
• Cache Keys & Query Identity
• Staleness & Revalidation
• Cache Invalidation
• Background Refetching
• Mutation Lifecycle
• Optimistic Updates
• Rollback & Conflict Resolution
• Pagination
• Infinite & Cursor Loading
• List Virtualization
• Normalizing Server Responses
• Client-Side Relations
• Derived Server Data
• Retries & Backoff
• Loading & Error States

Taxonomy

Second-level groups and their articles. Each article is a standalone entry following the template; its filename is the kebab-case form of the title.

Fetching Strategies

• Fetch-on-Render vs Render-as-You-Fetch
• Parallel vs Waterfall Requests
• Request Deduplication
• Data Prefetching

Server-State Cache

• Cache Keys & Query Identity
• Staleness & Revalidation
• Cache Invalidation
• Background Refetching

Mutations

• Mutation Lifecycle
• Optimistic Updates
• Rollback & Conflict Resolution

Large Data Sets

• Pagination
• Infinite & Cursor Loading
• List Virtualization

Data Modeling

• Normalizing Server Responses
• Client-Side Relations
• Derived Server Data

Resilience

• Retries & Backoff
• Loading & Error States
• Offline & Local-First Sync

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