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feat(react-query): support server snapshots during hydration
DogPawHat Sep 14, 2026
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feat(react-query): support server snapshot hydration options
DogPawHat Sep 15, 2026
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fix(react-query): scope server snapshots to hydration boundaries
DogPawHat Sep 16, 2026
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Merge branch 'main' into query-ssr-snapshot-transport
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions .changeset/tidy-poems-guess.md
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'@tanstack/react-query': patch
---

Make queries inside a `HydrationBoundary` replay the boundary's server-rendered state during hydration before switching to the live cache. This prevents hydration mismatches when the cache changes before browser hydration, including when a query above the boundary creates an empty cache entry or a streamed promise resolves early.
67 changes: 63 additions & 4 deletions packages/react-query/src/HydrationBoundary.tsx
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'use client'
import * as React from 'react'

import { hydrate } from '@tanstack/query-core'
import { QueryCache, QueryClient, hydrate } from '@tanstack/query-core'
import { useQueryClient } from './QueryClientProvider'
import type {
DehydratedState,
HydrateOptions,
OmitKeyof,
QueryClient,
} from '@tanstack/query-core'

/**
* Internal context that carries the frozen server snapshot for the nearest
* hydration boundary. Hooks use it to replay the result that produced the
* server markup instead of reading newer data from the live cache.
*/
export const QueryServerSnapshotContext = React.createContext<
QueryClient | undefined
>(undefined)

/**
* The props accepted by `HydrationBoundary`.
*/
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*/
export const HydrationBoundary = ({
children,
options = {},
options,
state,
queryClient,
}: HydrationBoundaryProps) => {
Expand All @@ -96,6 +104,53 @@ export const HydrationBoundary = ({
optionsRef.current = options
})

// Keep an immutable copy of the query state that produced this boundary's
// server markup. We build the queries directly instead of calling `hydrate`
// because hydration deliberately changes fetchStatus and may resolve a
// streamed promise synchronously.
const snapshotClient = React.useMemo(() => {
if (!state || typeof state !== 'object') {
return undefined
}

const queryCache = new QueryCache()
const clientOptions = client.getDefaultOptions().hydrate
const boundaryOptions = options?.defaultOptions
const frozenClient = new QueryClient({ queryCache })
const deserializeData =
boundaryOptions?.deserializeData ?? clientOptions?.deserializeData

// State is supplied from the outside, so handle an invalid shape
// gracefully just like the live-cache hydration below.
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unnecessary-condition
const queries = state.queries || []

queries.forEach(
({ queryKey, queryHash, state: queryState, meta, queryType }) => {
const data =
queryState.data === undefined || !deserializeData
? queryState.data
: deserializeData(queryState.data)

queryCache.build(
frozenClient,
{
...clientOptions?.queries,
...boundaryOptions?.queries,
queryKey,
queryHash,
meta,
_type: queryType,
},
// Copy the state so the caller's dehydrated state remains untouched.
{ ...queryState, data },
)
},
)

return frozenClient
}, [client, options, state])

// This useMemo is for performance reasons only, everything inside it must
// be safe to run in every render and code here should be read as "in render".
//
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}
}, [client, hydrationQueue])

return children as React.ReactElement
return (
<QueryServerSnapshotContext.Provider value={snapshotClient}>

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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sed -n '75,195p' packages/react-query/src/useBaseQuery.ts
rg -n -C 3 'HydrationBoundary|QueryServerSnapshotContext|nested' packages/react-query/src/__tests__

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printf '%s\n' '--- useBaseQuery focused lines ---'
nl -ba packages/react-query/src/useBaseQuery.ts | sed -n '1,215p'
printf '%s\n' '--- focused nested/test references ---'
rg -n -C 5 'HydrationBoundary|QueryServerSnapshotContext|nested|outer|inner' packages/react-query/src/__tests__/HydrationBoundary.test.tsx packages/react-query/src/__tests__/ssr-hydration.test.tsx

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Preserve snapshots from outer hydration boundaries.

HydrationBoundary replaces the nearest QueryServerSnapshotContext with its own snapshotClient. If an inner boundary has no state or lacks the current queryHash, useBaseQuery cannot find an ancestor snapshot and falls back to the live observer result.

The live result can differ from the outer server snapshot during the first hydration render. Preserve a chain of snapshot clients and use the live cache only after all ancestor snapshots miss. Add a nested-boundary regression test with an outer pending query and an empty or unrelated inner state.

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In `@packages/react-query/src/HydrationBoundary.tsx` at line 226, Update
HydrationBoundary’s QueryServerSnapshotContext handling to preserve access to
ancestor snapshot clients through nested boundaries, falling back to the live
cache only after the current and all outer snapshots miss. Ensure useBaseQuery
can retain the outer pending snapshot when an inner boundary has empty or
unrelated state, and add a regression test covering that nested-boundary
scenario.

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Are you concerned about nested hydration boundaries?

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printf '%s\n' '--- Snapshot context references and useSyncExternalStore call context ---'
rg -n -C 12 'QueryServerSnapshotContext|useSyncExternalStore|serverSnapshot' packages/react-query/src/useBaseQuery.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Snapshot context declarations and providers ---'
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@DogPawHat, yes. I verified the nested-boundary case.

useBaseQuery reads only the nearest QueryServerSnapshotContext. An inner HydrationBoundary always provides its own snapshotClient. If that client is undefined, empty, or does not contain defaultedOptions.queryHash, Lines 108-117 return no server snapshot. Line 129 then falls back to the live observer result.

Therefore, an outer boundary’s matching snapshot is not available to queries inside an inner boundary. The concern applies only to nested boundaries where the inner snapshot misses and the live cache has advanced before client hydration.

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{children}
</QueryServerSnapshotContext.Provider>
)
}
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