Every variable used inside a TanStack Query queryFn must appear in the query key
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:56.738Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:56.738Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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The query key is the cache identity. Omitting a filter or a user id means two logically different requests share one cache entry, so changing the variable does not refetch and the wrong data is served from cache. There is no runtime warning for this.
Keys are hashed deterministically and object key order does not matter, so the object with a then b hashes the same as b then a. Array order does matter, which is why the convention is to go from generic to specific, such as todos, then a filters object. That ordering also makes prefix based invalidation work: invalidating the todos prefix reaches every query beneath it.
Install @tanstack/eslint-plugin-query and enable its exhaustive-deps rule, which catches a missing dependency the same way the React hooks rule does.
Source: https://tanstack.com/query/latest/docs/framework/react/guides/query-keys
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