Stop Re-Rendering — TanStack DB, the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query
Your React dashboard shouldn't grind to a halt just because one TODO turns from ☐ to ☑. Yet every optimistic update still kicks off a cascade of re-renders, filters, useMemos and spinner flashes.
TanStack DB is our answer: a client-side database layer powered by differential dataflow that plugs straight into your existing useQuery calls.
One early-alpha adopter, building a Linear-like application, swapped out a pile of MobX code for TanStack DB and told us with relief, “everything is now completely instantaneous when clicking around the app, even w/ 1000s of tasks loaded.”
Differential dataflow unlocks Option C—load normalized collections once, let TanStack DB stream millisecond-level incremental joins in the browser. No rewrites, no spinners, no jitter.
TanStack DB keeps a normalized collection store in memory, then uses differential dataflow to update query results incrementally. Think of it like Materialize-style streaming SQL—except embedded in the browser and hooked straight into React Query’s cache.
