State Management · Senior · Question 70 of 75

Why can dependent queries create a waterfall, and how do you reduce it?

✓Correct answer: Each query waits for the previous result before starting; fetch on the server, prefetch in a loader, or add an endpoint that returns combined data
2TanStack Query always runs queries sequentially
3Dependent queries are cached forever

Explanation

Client-side chains add a full round-trip per step. Loaders, server components or a backend-for-frontend endpoint collapse them.

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