useInfiniteList

useInfiniteList is an extended version of TanStack Query's useInfiniteQuery used for retrieving items from a resource with pagination, sort, and filter configurations. It is ideal for lists where the total number of records is unknown and the user loads the next pages with a button.

• It uses the getList method as the query function from the dataProvider which is passed to <Refine>.

• It uses a query key to cache the data. The query key is generated from the provided properties. You can see the query key by using the TanStack Query devtools.

Basic Usage

Here is a basic example of how to use the useInfiniteList hook.

http://localhost:3000/categories

import React from "react";
import { useInfiniteList } from "@refinedev/core";

const PostList = () => {
    const {
        data,
        isError,
        isLoading,
        hasNextPage,
        fetchNextPage,
        isFetchingNextPage,
    } = useInfiniteList({
        resource: "categories",
        pagination: {
            pageSize: 4,
        },
    });

    if (isLoading) {
        return <p>Loading</p>;
    }
    if (isError) {
        return <p>Something went wrong</p>;
    }

    const allPages = [].concat(...(data?.pages ?? []).map((page) => page.data));

    return (
        <div>
            <ul>
                {allPages.map(({ id, title }) => (
                    <li key={id}>
                        {id}.{title}
                    </li>
                ))}
            </ul>
            {hasNextPage && (
                <button
                    onClick={() => fetchNextPage()}
                    disabled={isFetchingNextPage}
                >
                    {isFetchingNextPage ? "Loading more..." : "Load More"}
                </button>
            )}
        </div>
    );
};

Pagination

useInfiniteList hook supports pagination properties just like useList. To handle pagination, the useInfiniteList hook passes the pagination property to the getList method from the dataProvider.

Dynamically changing the pagination properties will trigger a new request. Also, the fetchNextPage method will increase the pagination.current property by one and trigger a new request.

import { useInfiniteList } from "@refinedev/core";

const postListQueryResult = useInfiniteList({
    resource: "posts",
    pagination: { current: 3, pageSize: 8 },
});

Sorting

The useInfiniteList hook supports the sorting feature. You can pass the sorters property to enable sorting. To handle sorting, the useInfiniteList hook passes the sorters property to the getList method from the dataProvider.

Dynamically changing the sorters property will trigger a new request.

http://localhost:3000/products

import { useState } from "react";
import { useInfiniteList, HttpError } from "@refinedev/core";

interface IProduct {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    material: string;
}

const ProductList: React.FC = () => {
    const [order, setOrder] = useState<"asc" | "desc">("asc");

    const {
        data,
        isLoading,
        isError,
        hasNextPage,
        fetchNextPage,
        isFetchingNextPage,
    } = useInfiniteList<IProduct, HttpError>({
        resource: "products",
        sorters: [
            {
                field: "name",
                order,
            },
        ],
    });

    if (isLoading) {
        return <p>Loading</p>;
    }
    if (isError) {
        return <p>Something went wrong</p>;
    }

    const allPages = [].concat(...(data?.pages ?? []).map((page) => page.data));

    return (
        <div>
            <button
                onClick={() =>
                    setOrder((prev) => (prev === "asc" ? "desc" : "asc"))
                }
            >
                toggle sort
            </button>

            <ul>
                {allPages.map((product) => (
                    <li key={product.id}>
                        {product.name} - ({product.material})
                    </li>
                ))}
            </ul>

            {hasNextPage && (
                <button
                    onClick={() => fetchNextPage()}
                    disabled={isFetchingNextPage}
                >
                    {isFetchingNextPage ? "Loading more..." : "Load More"}
                </button>
            )}
        </div>
    );
};

Filtering

The useInfiniteList hook supports the filtering feature. You can pass the filters property to enable filtering. To handle filtering, the useInfiniteList hook passes the filters property to the getList method from the dataProvider.

Dynamically changing the filters property will trigger a new request.

http://localhost:3000/products

import { useState } from "react";
import { useInfiniteList, HttpError } from "@refinedev/core";

interface IProduct {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    material: string;
}

const ProductList: React.FC = () => {
    const [value, setValue] = useState("Cotton");

    const {
        data,
        isLoading,
        isError,
        hasNextPage,
        fetchNextPage,
        isFetchingNextPage,
    } = useInfiniteList<IProduct, HttpError>({
        resource: "products",
        filters: [
            {
                field: "material",
                operator: "eq",
                value,
            },
        ],
    });

    if (isLoading) {
        return <div>Loading...</div>;
    }

    if (isError) {
        return <div>Something went wrong!</div>;
    }

    const allPages = [].concat(...(data?.pages ?? []).map((page) => page.data));

    return (
        <div>
            <span> material: </span>
            <select value={value} onChange={(e) => setValue(e.target.value)}>
                {["Cotton", "Bronze", "Plastic"].map((material) => (
                    <option key={material} value={material}>
                        {material}
                    </option>
                ))}
            </select>

            <ul>
                {allPages.map((product) => (
                    <li key={product.id}>
                        {product.name} - ({product.material})
                    </li>
                ))}
            </ul>

            {hasNextPage && (
                <button
                    onClick={() => fetchNextPage()}
                    disabled={isFetchingNextPage}
                >
                    {isFetchingNextPage ? "Loading more..." : "Load More"}
                </button>
            )}
        </div>
    );
};

Realtime Updates

This feature is only available if you use a Live Provider.

When the useInfiniteList hook is mounted, it will call the subscribe method from the liveProvider with some parameters such as channel, resource etc. It is useful when you want to subscribe to live updates.

Refer to the liveProvider documentation for more information →

Properties

resource

required

It will be passed to the getList method from the dataProvider as a parameter. The parameter is usually used as an API endpoint path. It all depends on how to handle the resource in the getList method. See the creating a data provider section for an example of how resources are handled.

useInfiniteList({
    resource: "categories",
});

dataProviderName

If there is more than one dataProvider, you can specify which one to use by passing the dataProviderName prop. It is useful when you have a different data provider for different resources.

useInfiniteList({
    dataProviderName: "second-data-provider",
});

filters

filters will be passed to the getList method from the dataProvider as a parameter. It is used to send filter query parameters to the API.

Refer to the CrudFilters interface for more information →

useInfiniteList({
    filters: [
        {
            field: "title",
            operator: "contains",
            value: "Foo",
        },
    ],
});

sorters

sorters will be passed to the getList method from the dataProvider as a parameter. It is used to send sort query parameters to the API.

Refer to the CrudSorting interface for more information →

useInfiniteList({
    sorters: [
        {
            field: "title",
            order: "asc",
        },
    ],
});

pagination

pagination will be passed to the getList method from the dataProvider as a parameter. It is used to send pagination query parameters to the API.

current

You can pass the current page number to the pagination property.

useInfiniteList({
    pagination: {
        current: 2,
    },
});

pageSize

You can pass the pageSize to the pagination property.

useInfiniteList({
    pagination: {
        pageSize: 20,
    },
});

mode

It can be "off", "client" or "server". It is used to determine whether to use server-side pagination or not.

useInfiniteList({
    pagination: {
        mode: "off",
    },
});

queryOptions

queryOptions is used to pass additional options to the useQuery hook. It is useful when you want to pass additional options to the useQuery hook.

Refer to the useQuery documentation for more information →

useInfiniteList({
    queryOptions: {
        retry: 3,
    },
});

meta

meta is a special property that can be used to pass additional information to data provider methods for the following purposes:

• Customizing the data provider methods for specific use cases.
• Generating GraphQL queries using plain JavaScript Objects (JSON).

Refer to the meta section of the General Concepts documentation for more information →

In the following example, we pass the headers property in the meta object to the create method. With similar logic, you can pass any properties to specifically handle the data provider methods.

useInfiniteList({
    meta: {
        headers: { "x-meta-data": "true" },
    },
});

const myDataProvider = {
    //...
    getList: async ({
        resource,
        pagination,
        sorters,
        filters,
        meta,
    }) => {
        const headers = meta?.headers ?? {};
        const url = `${apiUrl}/${resource}`;

        //...
        //...

        const { data } = await httpClient.get(`${url}`, { headers });

        return {
            data,
        };
    },
    //...
};

successNotification

NotificationProvider is required for this prop to work.

After data is fetched successfully, useInfiniteList can call open function from NotificationProvider to show a success notification. With this prop, you can customize the success notification.

useInfiniteList({
    successNotification: (data, values, resource) => {
        return {
            message: `${data.title} Successfully fetched.`,
            description: "Success with no errors",
            type: "success",
        };
    },
});

errorNotification

NotificationProvider is required for this prop to work.

After data fetching is failed, useInfiniteList will call open function from NotificationProvider to show an error notification. With this prop, you can customize the error notification.

useInfiniteList({
    errorNotification: (data, values, resource) => {
        return {
            message: `Something went wrong when getting ${data.id}`,
            description: "Error",
            type: "error",
        };
    },
});

liveMode

LiveProvider is required for this prop to work.

Determines whether to update data automatically ("auto") or not ("manual") if a related live event is received. It can be used to update and show data in Realtime throughout your app. For more information about live mode, please check the Live / Realtime page.

useInfiniteList({
    liveMode: "auto",
});

onLiveEvent

LiveProvider is required for this prop to work.

The callback function is executed when new events from a subscription have arrived.

useInfiniteList({
    onLiveEvent: (event) => {
        console.log(event);
    },
});

liveParams

LiveProvider is required for this prop to work.

Params to pass to liveProvider's subscribe method.

config

Deprecated

Use pagination, hasPagination, sorters and filters instead.

hasPagination

Deprecated

Use pagination.mode instead.

hasPagination will be passed to the getList method from the dataProvider as a parameter. It is used to determine whether to use server-side pagination or not.

useInfiniteList({
    hasPagination: false,
});

Return Values

Returns an object with TanStack Query's useInfiniteQuery return values.

Refer to the useInfiniteQuery documentation for more information →

FAQ

How to use cursor-based pagination?

Some APIs use the cursor-pagination method for its benefits. This method uses a cursor object to determine the next set of data. The cursor can be a number or a string and is passed to the API as a query parameter.

Preparing the data provider:

Consumes data from data provider useInfiniteList with the getList method. First of all, we need to make this method in the data provider convenient for this API. The cursor data is kept in pagination and should be set to 0 by default.

getList: async ({ resource, pagination }) => {
    const { current } = pagination;
    const { data } = await axios.get(
        `https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev/${resource}?cursor=${current || 0}`,
    );

    return {
        data: data[resource],
        total: 0,
    };
},

tip

As the total data is only needed in the offset-pagination method, define it as 0 here.

After this process, we successfully retrieved the first page of data. Let's fill the cursor object for the next page.

getList: async ({ resource, pagination }) => {
    const { current } = pagination;
    const { data } = await axios.get(
        `https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev/${resource}?cursor=${current || 0}`,
    );

    return {
        data: data[resource],
        total: 0,
        cursor: {
            next: data.cursor.next,
            prev: data.cursor.prev,
        },
    };
},

How to override the getNextPageParam method?

By default, refine expects you to return the cursor object, but is not required. This is because some APIs don't work that way. To fix this problem you need to override the getNextPageParam method and return the next cursor.

import { useInfiniteList } from "@refinedev/core";

const {
    data,
    error,
    hasNextPage,
    isLoading,
    fetchNextPage,
    isFetchingNextPage,
} = useInfiniteList({
    resource: "posts",
    queryOptions: {
        getNextPageParam: (lastPage, allPages) => {
            // return the last post's id
            const { data } = lastPage;
            const lastPost = data[data.length - 1];
            return lastPost.id;
        },
    },
});

tip

When you override this method, you can access the lastPage and allPages.

API

Properties

Type Parameters

Property	Desription	Type	Default
TQueryFnData	Result data returned by the query function. Extends BaseRecord	BaseRecord	BaseRecord
TError	Custom error object that extends HttpError	HttpError	HttpError
TData	Result data returned by the select function. Extends BaseRecord. If not specified, the value of TQueryFnData will be used as the default value.	BaseRecord	TQueryFnData

Return Values

Description	Type
Result of the TanStack Query's useInfiniteQuery	InfiniteQueryObserverResult<{ data: TData[]; total: number; }, TError>

Example

VIEW SOURCE CODE →

RUN IN YOUR LOCAL

npm create refine-app@latest -- --example use-infinite-list