useIsFetching: A misleading name?

[SoyDiego]

Hello, I'm new to the community and I'm using TanStack Query. I'd like to hear opinions about the name useIsFetching. I'm not sure if someone has proposed or thought about this topic, but the name can be a bit confusing. When you read 'useIsFetching,' you'd expect it to return a boolean, not a number.

I know the documentation is very clear and explains everything perfectly, but wouldn't it be better to use a name like:

• useQueryCount
• useLoadingQueries
• useActiveQueries

And the documentation could look something like this (example with useQueryCount):

I don't come here to destroy anything, I just write something that crossed my mind when I was using the library.

Thank you very much for your time

[vossmalte]

If it’s well documented I do not see an issue with the name.

Also: 0 is falsey, other numbers truthy. So conversion to Boolean works fine.

[TkDodo]

yeah, that was the original idea. Even if you are not interested in the actual count, you can still do:

const isFetching = useIsFetching()

if (isFetching) { ... }

and it will work like you'd expect.

Also, we are 5 minutes past the last major release, I'm not thinking about breaking api changes right now 😆

[SoyDiego]

Thanks both for your opinion.
I appreaciate your time. I didn't expect a change or generate breaking change with this. Only I wanted to know opinions and now all is clearer for me.