React-router v6 action vs loader

[glazey132]

Hi everyone!

I'm looking to develop a filter component for some tables in my app and i'm reading the docs for react-router v6 and am having some trouble wrapping my head around when to send requests to my route's loader vs when to send requests to my route's action.

It seems like the loader might be the best place to send requests that filter data inside my route's component. but then when would i send a request to my route's action?

is it best to think about actions vs loaders as the analogy that loaders are for GET requests and actions are for mutations like POST / PUT?