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🚢 @tanstack.com Query v5.63.0 ships with a great new feature: The ability to unsubscribe an observer from the cache. This will hopefully help in react-native, where screens might stay mounted even if they aren't visible. Unsubscribing makes sure those don't re-render and won't trigger fetches.

Wonder how this would compare with react-freeze + react-navigation integration Any idea @hirbod.dev @kzzzf.bsky.social ? github.com/software-man...

freeze works automatically across all the screens in the app, so there's no need to configure that on individual query level, and it is also agnostic to whoever triggered re-render.

the difference here is that unsubscribing from queries also prevents the query logic from running (I don't know react query well enough to be able to tell how much of a saving that could be). So in this case it also skips the query logic + the render (unless there's another factor triggering render)

Great minds think alike