Using React Query for state management in React Native

The article delves into state management in React Native, highlighting the challenges and solutions within this aspect of app development. It emphasizes the importance of effectively managing mutable React Native data within components, especially as applications grow, necessitating the use of state management libraries like Context API, Redux, and React Query. The focus is on React Query, described as a versatile data-fetching library that enhances developer experience (DX) and user experience (UX) through features like caching and reduced boilerplate code. The article provides a step-by-step guide to integrating React Query into a React Native app, using Axios for data fetching and demonstrating the use of various React Query hooks to manage application state efficiently. It concludes by emphasizing React Query's benefits in improving app performance and developer workflow, and offers a complete app example on GitHub.