Chatbot with React Query - does it make sense?
Hey folks! I am building a chatbot feature in my application and I was wondering if it makes sense to use React Query for that? The flow will look something like this:
- main app calls the /initialise endpoint with the user id and some additional data
- chatbot api passes back a session id
- for the remainder of the session main app calls the /transactions endpoint with the session id and the text input
- as a response, it receives plain text answer and some additional data, basically the guides for next possible question/action
My intuition is that I wouldn't necessarily benefit from using RQ for this since it doesn't make much sense for me to cache any responses. I'm leaning towards a solution where after each successful response from /transactions endpoint, I push the message to the
messages array kept in Zustand store for example or even plain old React state. This messages array would be a representation of the entire conversation. On the other hand, maybe it's worth using RQ just for loading and error state handling? What are your thoughts, how would you apporach this?
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