Introduction

SWR is a React Hooks library for data fetching.

The name “SWR” is derived from stale-while-revalidate, a cache invalidation strategy popularized by HTTP RFC 5861. SWR first returns the data from cache (stale), then sends the request (revalidate), and finally comes with the up-to-date data again.

With just one hook, you can significantly simplify the data fetching logic in your project. And it also covered in all aspects of speed, correctness, and stability to help you build better experiences:

Fast, lightweight and reusable data fetching
Transport and protocol agnostic
Built-in cache and request deduplication
Real-time experience
Revalidation on focus
Revalidation on network recovery
Polling
Pagination and scroll position recovery
SSR and SSG
Local mutation (Optimistic UI)
Built-in smart error retry
TypeScript
React Suspense
React Native

...and a lot more.

With SWR, components will get a stream of data updates constantly and automatically. Thus, the UI will be always fast and reactive.

View full documentation and examples on swr.vercel.app.

Quick Start

import useSWR from 'swr'

function Profile() {
  const { data, error, isLoading } = useSWR('/api/user', fetcher)

  if (error) return <div>failed to load</div>
  if (isLoading) return <div>loading...</div>
  return <div>hello {data.name}!</div>
}

In this example, the React Hook useSWR accepts a key and a fetcher function. The key is a unique identifier of the request, normally the URL of the API. And the fetcher accepts key as its parameter and returns the data asynchronously.

useSWR also returns 3 values: data, isLoading and error. When the request (fetcher) is not yet finished, data will be undefined and isLoading will be true. When we get a response, it sets data and error based on the result of fetcher, isLoading to false and rerenders the component.

Note that fetcher can be any asynchronous function, you can use your favourite data-fetching library to handle that part.

View full documentation and examples on swr.vercel.app.

Authors

This library is created by the team behind Next.js, with contributions from our community:

Shu Ding (@shuding_) - Vercel
Jiachi Liu (@huozhi) - Vercel
Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) - Vercel
Joe Haddad (@timer150) - Vercel
Paco Coursey (@pacocoursey) - Vercel

Contributors

Thanks to Ryan Chen for providing the awesome swr npm package name!

License

The MIT License.

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