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🎯 Changes

Adds QueryStrictMode provider that activates Strict Mode for prefetching queries

  • Accepts logger for logging errors and also options for throwing errors for under or over prefetching
  • If Strict mode is active, useSuspenseQuery will log and/or throw an error if a query is not already in flight or data is not already in the cache when the hook is called.
  • when a query is prefetched, a timer starts. if the timer ends and the query is not marked as having been used by a query hook, an error is logged and possibly thrown from QueryStrictMode
  • no effect in production

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  • New Features
    • Added QueryStrictMode to report queries fetched without prefetching and prefetched queries that go unused during development.
    • Configure a handler for these diagnostics, including throwing errors. Unused prefetches are reported after a configurable timeout, which defaults to five seconds.
    • In production, QueryStrictMode renders its children without running diagnostics.

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2 package(s) bumped directly, 22 bumped as dependents.

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@tanstack/preact-query 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Changeset
@tanstack/react-query 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Changeset
@tanstack/angular-query-experimental 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
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@tanstack/query-async-storage-persister 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/query-broadcast-client-experimental 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/query-core 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/query-devtools 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/query-persist-client-core 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/query-sync-storage-persister 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/react-query-devtools 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/react-query-next-experimental 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/react-query-persist-client 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/solid-query 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/solid-query-devtools 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/solid-query-persist-client 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent
@tanstack/vue-query 5.104.4 → 5.105.0 Dependent

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@tanstack/lit-query 0.2.29 → 0.2.30 Dependent
@tanstack/svelte-query 6.3.4 → 6.3.5 Dependent
@tanstack/svelte-query-devtools 6.3.4 → 6.3.5 Dependent
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📝 Walkthrough

Adds QueryStrictMode for development diagnostics of missing and unused query prefetches. Query hooks invoke missing-prefetch checks. The mode tracks successful non-manual cache updates and reports unused prefetches after a configurable timeout. In production, it renders its children without diagnostics.

Changes: Query strict mode

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Strict-mode API and cache tracking
packages/react-query/src/QueryStrictMode.tsx, packages/react-query/src/index.ts, .changeset/query-strict-mode.md
Defines and exports strict-mode events, errors, handler options, and the component. The outermost mode tracks successful non-manual cache updates and reports unused prefetches after the configured timeout.
Missing-prefetch checks in query hooks
packages/react-query/src/QueryStrictMode.tsx, packages/react-query/src/useBaseQuery.ts, packages/react-query/src/useQueries.ts, packages/react-query/src/__tests__/QueryStrictMode.test-d.tsx, packages/react-query/src/__tests__/QueryStrictMode.test.tsx
Checks whether suspense and non-suspense hooks start an initial fetch without a prefetch. Both hook paths pass query and result data to the check when restoration is inactive. Type and behavior tests cover the API and missing-prefetch reports.
Unused-prefetch and lifecycle behavior
packages/react-query/src/__tests__/QueryStrictMode.test.tsx
Tests unused-prefetch timeouts and query lifecycle cases. Also tests behavior without the mode, during restoration, in nested modes, and in production.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant QueryHook
  participant QueryStrictMode
  participant QueryCache
  participant Handler
  QueryHook->>QueryStrictMode: Check query and optimistic result
  QueryStrictMode->>QueryStrictMode: Mark query used or detect missing prefetch
  QueryCache->>QueryStrictMode: Notify successful non-manual update
  QueryStrictMode->>Handler: Report missing or unused prefetch
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Comment on lines +258 to +276
React.useEffect(() => {
if (isNested || isRestoring) {
return
}

const timers = new Map<
Query<any, any, any, any>,
ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>
>()

const clearTimer = (query: Query<any, any, any, any>) => {
clearTimeout(timers.get(query))
timers.delete(query)
}

const isUnused = (query: Query<any, any, any, any>) =>
!used.has(query) && query.getObserversCount() === 0

const unsubscribe = client.getQueryCache().subscribe((event) => {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- SSR-safe effect and environment patterns ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'useIsomorphicLayoutEffect' -e 'useLayoutEffect' -e 'environmentManager' -e 'isServer' packages/react-query/src packages/query-core/src || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- QueryStrictMode references and SSR test contexts ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'QueryStrictMode' packages/react-query/src
nl -ba packages/react-query/src/__tests__/ssr.test.tsx | sed -n '1,290p'
printf '%s\n' '--- React package constraints ---'
rg -n -F -e '"react":' -e '"react-dom":' packages/react-query/package.json pnpm-lock.yaml | head -40

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Use an SSR-safe layout subscription.

A descendant render-time prefetch can complete after commit but before passive effects flush. The current React.useEffect subscription then misses the success event, so no unused-prefetch timer starts.

An unconditional React.useLayoutEffect can emit React 18's server-rendering warning. QueryStrictMode is not client-only in development. Select React.useEffect on the server and React.useLayoutEffect on the client.

Suggested fix
 import { useQueryClient } from './QueryClientProvider'
 import { useIsRestoring } from './IsRestoringProvider'
+import { environmentManager } from '@tanstack/query-core'
 import type { Query, QueryClient } from '@tanstack/query-core'

 ...
 
-  React.useEffect(() => {
+  const useIsomorphicLayoutEffect = environmentManager.isServer()
+    ? React.useEffect
+    : React.useLayoutEffect
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+  useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(() => {
     if (isNested || isRestoring) {
       return
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Replace the passive-effect subscription in QueryStrictMode with an isomorphic
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yeah feels like we would need useSyncExternalStore here?

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React useSyncExternalStore official documentation subscribe getSnapshot changes before subscription snapshot cached getServerSnapshot

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@TkDodo Yes—useSyncExternalStore fits if we expose the tracking state as a store with a stable snapshot. React can detect a snapshot change between render and subscription. React docs

But replacing useEffect with useSyncExternalStore alone would not recover missed success events. The store must retain enough state to identify eligible prefetches and their completion times. It must also preserve the exclusions for manual writes and queries fetched before mounting.

My layout-effect suggestion only narrows the subscription window. It does not recover earlier events. A snapshot-backed tracker would address that gap more reliably, with getServerSnapshot for SSR.

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great work 🙌

I’m generally thinking if we should widen the StrictMode to also work on non-suspense queries? Like, an unused prefetching for example doesn’t matter if it’s suspense or not. And having a normal query "trigger" the fetch without prefetching is also not ideal for non-suspense. Yes, for suspense it’s worse because it can waterfall easily, but would be good actually to either have this report on everything or have it be opt-in. Maybe it should report on anything and can be filtered out during logging?

* `'missing-prefetch'` when a suspense hook starts a fetch during render, and `'unused-prefetch'`
* when nothing used a prefetched query within `unusedPrefetchTimeout`.
*/
type: 'missing-prefetch' | 'unused-prefetch'

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I like this 👍

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Comment on lines +258 to +276
React.useEffect(() => {
if (isNested || isRestoring) {
return
}

const timers = new Map<
Query<any, any, any, any>,
ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>
>()

const clearTimer = (query: Query<any, any, any, any>) => {
clearTimeout(timers.get(query))
timers.delete(query)
}

const isUnused = (query: Query<any, any, any, any>) =>
!used.has(query) && query.getObserversCount() === 0

const unsubscribe = client.getQueryCache().subscribe((event) => {

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yeah feels like we would need useSyncExternalStore here?

Comment on lines +134 to +142
const willSuspend = !!shouldSuspend(defaultedOptions, result)

if (!isRestoring) {
checkQueryStrictMode(
strictMode,
client.getQueryCache().get(defaultedOptions.queryHash),
willSuspend,
)
}

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would be great if we could also hide this behind an env check to keep bundle-size impact minimal?

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had an agent come up with some suggestions for bundle size:

  1. guard the hook calls (pretty much what I said)
  2. guard context creation:
const QueryStrictModeContext =
  process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
    ? React.createContext<QueryStrictModeValue | null>(null)
    : null

if we guard the hook calls, we don’t need the context to be created

  1. select the provider implementation at export time:
export const QueryStrictMode =
  process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
    ? (props: QueryStrictModeProps) => props.children
    : DevQueryStrictMode
  1. use a separate entry point like @tanstack/react-query/strict-mode:
{
  "exports": {
    "./strict-mode": {
      "development": "./build/strict-mode.development.js",
      "default": "./build/strict-mode.production.js"
    }
  }
}

the prod entry point could have the stubbed context and provider and the dev entrypoint has the real things.

@@ -451,6 +454,19 @@ export function useQueries<
)
}, [defaultedQueries, options, observer])

if (!isRestoring) {

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same here, think we should move the env check gate out of checkQueryStrictMode

DogPawHat and others added 8 commits October 19, 2026 14:08
… prefetches in development

- 'missing-prefetch': a suspense hook inside 'QueryStrictMode' starts its fetch during render
- 'unused-prefetch': a prefetched query isn't read within 'unusedPrefetchTimeout' (5000ms)
- 'throwOnMissingPrefetch' and 'throwOnUnusedPrefetch' throw a 'QueryStrictModeError' to an error boundary instead of logging
- Only renders 'children' in production

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…in 'QueryStrictMode'

'useQuery', 'useInfiniteQuery', and 'useQueries' now report a 'missing-prefetch' when they start
the initial fetch of a query that wasn't prefetched. The event gets a 'suspense' flag so a logger
can filter for the suspense hooks, which cause request waterfalls. Each query state is only logged
once, so rendering twice before the fetch starts (for example in 'React.StrictMode') doesn't log
twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…yStrictMode' misses

'QueryStrictMode' subscribes to the query cache in a passive effect, so it misses prefetches whose
data arrives before that effect runs. These tests render outside of 'act' to show the gap after a
render-time prefetch, while a sibling suspends the first mount, and in 'React.StrictMode'. They
also show that changing 'unusedPrefetchTimeout' drops pending timers, and guard against a false
report for a prefetch that a component reads once 'QueryStrictMode' commits.

Four of these tests fail until the subscription gap and the timer leak are fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ler' prop

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…andler' in 'QueryStrictMode'

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ictMode'

Prefetches whose data arrived before the effect subscribed, for example while a
sibling suspended, were never reported. Timers also restarted from scratch, or
were lost, when the effect ran again.

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…does

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Review comments at @packages/react-query/src/QueryStrictMode.tsx:
- Around line 276-290: Move the used and checked tracking state out of each
QueryStrictMode instance and into the shared PrefetchTracker for the QueryClient
cache. Update markUsed and the timer callback to use that cache-scoped state so
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Comment on lines +276 to +290
const [{ used, checked, markUsed: ownMarkUsed }] = React.useState(() => {
const queries = new WeakSet<Query<any, any, any, any>>()
return {
used: queries,
// When the prefetch was recorded that each query was last checked for, so a timer that
// already ran doesn't start again when the effect runs again
checked: new WeakMap<Query<any, any, any, any>, number>(),
markUsed: (query: Query<any, any, any, any>) => {
queries.add(query)
},
}
})
// A nested `QueryStrictMode` marks queries in the tracking of its ancestor, so unused prefetches
// are only reported once
const markUsed = isNested ? parent.markUsed : ownMarkUsed

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Share used and checked per QueryCache, not per QueryStrictMode instance.

This applies to two outermost QueryStrictModes that use the same QueryClient, for example per-route or per-layout siblings. Both instances share one PrefetchTracker, but each instance has its own used and checked sets. This causes two incorrect results:

  • A query read only inside instance A calls only A's markUsed. After the reader unmounts, its observer count is 0. Instance B then reports a false 'unused-prefetch'.
  • A query that nothing uses is reported once by each instance. If the handler throws, both subtrees unmount.

The JSDoc says the check covers "the whole cache of the QueryClient", so the used state must also exist once per cache. Move used and checked into PrefetchTracker. Make markUsed write to the tracker of client.getQueryCache(). When the first timer callback runs, it calls used.add(query). Every other instance then sees isUnused(query) === false, so the query is reported only once.

Sketch of the fix
 interface PrefetchTracker {
   prefetches: Map<Query<any, any, any, any>, number>
+  used: WeakSet<Query<any, any, any, any>>
+  checked: WeakMap<Query<any, any, any, any>, number>
   listeners: Set<(query: Query<any, any, any, any>) => void>
   mounted: number
   unsubscribe: () => void
 }
 ...
-    tracker = { prefetches, listeners, mounted: 0, unsubscribe }
+    tracker = {
+      prefetches,
+      used: new WeakSet(),
+      checked: new WeakMap(),
+      listeners,
+      mounted: 0,
+      unsubscribe,
+    }

In DevQueryStrictMode, read used and checked from getPrefetchTracker(cache) inside the effect. Define markUsed as (query) => prefetchTrackers.get(query.cache?)... or as a closure over cache that adds to the tracker's used set when the tracker exists.

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Review comment at @packages/react-query/src/QueryStrictMode.tsx around lines 276
- 290:
Move the used and checked tracking state out of each QueryStrictMode instance
and into the shared PrefetchTracker for the QueryClient cache. Update markUsed
and the timer callback to use that cache-scoped state so sibling instances
recognize queries already used or checked and report each unused prefetch only
once.

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