[ricardobeat]

That ceased to be true long ago. How do you use native fetch() with a functional component achieving correct/expected behaviour? It’s not possible without buying into react’s [very opinionated] hooks.

In fact, the toolbox this whole HN entry is about is a great example of how React is not just a rendering engine. It wouldn’t even be necessary otherwise. Peek at the code and what you’ll see is intense use of a DSL and built-in methods provided by React, to wrap native APIs that are otherwise usable without any wrappers.

I’m also a happy user of react-query, but it uses the same underlying hooks which are a moving target.

[parabyl]

I'm quite experienced with React itself (and have given RSC a spin more recently) - but I've been trying to understand, aside from using a top-level `await fetch` in a server component, is there a possible route to implementing this in client components themselves? Without using a useEffect to call the fetch and populate state with a DIY / ReactQuery style error/loading/component, that is.

My understand was previously that it wasn't really feasible, but seeing the RSC additions (as well as Next's own explorations into calling Server-side code from client components) I was wondering if it wasn't just avoided to go the route away from hooks since they're such a large 'caveat' already that it's only worth doubling down on them.