react-query/docs/framework/angular/guides/optimistic-updates.md

metadata

id: optimistic-updates
title: Optimistic Updates
ref: docs/framework/react/guides/optimistic-updates.md
replace:
  React: Angular
  useMutation: injectMutation
  hook: function
  useMutationState: injectMutationState
  addTodoMutation: addTodo

addTodo = injectMutation(() => ({
  mutationFn: (newTodo: string) => axios.post('/api/data', { text: newTodo }),
  // make sure to _return_ the Promise from the query invalidation
  // so that the mutation stays in `pending` state until the refetch is finished
  onSettled: async () => {
    return await queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] })
  },
}))

@Component({
  template: `
    @for (todo of todos.data(); track todo.id) {
      <li>{{ todo.title }}</li>
    }
    @if (addTodo.isPending()) {
      <li style="opacity: 0.5">{{ addTodo.variables() }}</li>
    }
  `,
})
class TodosComponent {}

@Component({
  template: `
    @if (addTodo.isError()) {
      <li style="color: red">
        {{ addTodo.variables() }}
        <button (click)="addTodo.mutate(addTodo.variables())">Retry</button>
      </li>
    }
  `,
})
class TodosComponent {}

// somewhere in your app
addTodo = injectMutation(() => ({
  mutationFn: (newTodo: string) => axios.post('/api/data', { text: newTodo }),
  onSettled: () => queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] }),
  mutationKey: ['addTodo'],
}))

// access variables somewhere else

mutationState = injectMutationState<string>(() => ({
  filters: { mutationKey: ['addTodo'], status: 'pending' },
  select: (mutation) => mutation.state.variables,
}))

queryClient = inject(QueryClient)

updateTodo = injectMutation(() => ({
  mutationFn: updateTodo,
  // When mutate is called:
  onMutate: async (newTodo) => {
    // Cancel any outgoing refetches
    // (so they don't overwrite our optimistic update)
    await this.queryClient.cancelQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] })

    // Snapshot the previous value
    const previousTodos = client.getQueryData(['todos'])

    // Optimistically update to the new value
    this.queryClient.setQueryData(['todos'], (old) => [...old, newTodo])

    // Return a context object with the snapshotted value
    return { previousTodos }
  },
  // If the mutation fails,
  // use the context returned from onMutate to roll back
  onError: (err, newTodo, context) => {
    client.setQueryData(['todos'], context.previousTodos)
  },
  // Always refetch after error or success:
  onSettled: () => {
    this.queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] })
  },
}))

queryClient = inject(QueryClient)

updateTodo = injectMutation(() => ({
  mutationFn: updateTodo,
  // When mutate is called:
  onMutate: async (newTodo) => {
    // Cancel any outgoing refetches
    // (so they don't overwrite our optimistic update)
    await this.queryClient.cancelQueries({ queryKey: ['todos', newTodo.id] })

    // Snapshot the previous value
    const previousTodo = this.queryClient.getQueryData(['todos', newTodo.id])

    // Optimistically update to the new value
    this.queryClient.setQueryData(['todos', newTodo.id], newTodo)

    // Return a context with the previous and new todo
    return { previousTodo, newTodo }
  },
  // If the mutation fails, use the context we returned above
  onError: (err, newTodo, context) => {
    this.queryClient.setQueryData(
      ['todos', context.newTodo.id],
      context.previousTodo,
    )
  },
  // Always refetch after error or success:
  onSettled: (newTodo) => {
    this.queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos', newTodo.id] })
  },
}))

injectMutation({
  mutationFn: updateTodo,
  // ...
  onSettled: (newTodo, error, variables, context) => {
    if (error) {
      // do something
    }
  },
})