How to keep results always fresh (prevent them from going stale)?

[alexbepple]

The only way I have found is to set staleTime to a very high value. Surprisingly, though, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER did not work. react-query kept revalidating.

Setting staleTime to a very high value bothers me slightly because I need to concern myself with incidental details.

Is there a clean way to effectively set staleTime to infinite?

[tannerlinsley]

Just set it to a large amount of time that would surpass the life of your users session length.

staleTime: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 // One year

[tannerlinsley]

Also, this should have been posted in the Discussions tab. :) I'll convert it to that now.

[alexbepple]

Sorry about "issues" vs "discussions".

In your example, staleTime is an incidental detail. I think it would be preferable to have an explicit way of saying "forever".

[tannerlinsley]

While I see where you're coming from, however at the end of the day, it would eventually need to be transformed into a time duration since the whole thing runs on timers for cache management. This would be quite a bit of library overhead to write where a simple constant in your ReactQueryConfigProvider or custom hook that wraps useQuery would be just fine.

[cherniavskii]

Actually we can support Infinity value for staleTime, and not set timeout at all in this case.
What do you think?

[tannerlinsley]

As long as it doesn't create a bunch of complexity or unnecessary KBs, I'm fine with that.

[cherniavskii]

Here's a PR #232

[alexbepple]

😍 Thank you, @cherniavskii and @tannerlinsley.