SessionProvider Context Noob Question
If we use getServerSideProps, I can understand where pageProps.session is coming from. However, if we use useSession (getting session on client side), does it somehow attach it to the context still once its fetched? Since it does not come in as a page prop in this case I am a little confused.
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You don't need to store the session data in ctx, that's where react-query comes in. It will cache the response for you, then when you go to make the request from another component, instead of making a second unnecessary request to the server, it will serve the cached response directly instead.
So your request on the client side would look something like
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Ahh ok, so useSession under the hood is doing this caching for us.
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useQuery is the caching layer. It will cache any asynchronous data for you. You can put an Axios request into useQuery and it'll cache that just like it would with your useSession data.
useSession is essentially just going to the SessionProvider and getting that session data for you.
Like you can see in my example, we're not using useQuery to store the session data, we're using to store the user object when we make a request to our backend for that user's data(using the getUser endpoint). We are just using the session data to get the user.id, so our API knows which user's data to fetch
@Kayn so I don’t use any TRPC or useQuery stuff, just useSession. I think you actually answered another question I had, but I was more curious how it’s getting the session data from session provider?
Basically just how useSession gets the session
All I know is that it does a fetch to the server and then idk what it’s doing behind the scenes with the session provider context or anything
They talk about it in this part of the docs: https://next-auth.js.org/getting-started/client#sessionprovider
Not sure if that's what you're looking for
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