I replaced TanStack Query with alova and cut my code by 70%

I replaced TanStack Query with alova and cut my code by 70% A frontend engineer's...

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A frontend engineer's real-world migration story — 5 scenarios, 133 lines reduced to 10 (92.5% reduction)

Six months ago I took over a mid-office project with a wishlist the size of a CVS receipt: paginated lists, multi-step forms, real-time SSE notifications, file uploads, autocomplete search…

Naturally, I reached for TanStack Query (formerly React Query). It's the de facto standard for React data fetching, right?

But as the project grew, something felt off. To handle different request patterns, I kept wrapping TanStack Query with more and more custom logic:

I replaced TanStack Query with alova and cut my code by 70%

I replaced TanStack Query with alova and cut my code by 70%

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