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React Application Architecture for Production - Second Edition
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In this chapter, we built a complete API layer for our application.
We started by creating an API client that wraps the fetch API with error handling and consistent configuration. This gives us a single place to manage how we communicate with our backend.
Next, we set up type generation from our OpenAPI specification. Now we can run a command to generate TypeScript types and Zod validation schemas that match our backend. This catches breaking changes at compile time and provides runtime validation.
We then configured React Query to manage server state. React Query handles caching, loading states, error handling, and request deduplication automatically, so we don't have to manage these manually.
With the foundation ready, we built our API layer following a consistent pattern: fetcher function, options factory, and custom hook. Each API function validates input and output using Zod schemas for end-to-end type safety.
Finally, we explored three ways to integrate queries...