---
title: 'SDK (React)'
description: 'Use the bknd SDK for React'
---

There are 4 useful hooks to work with your backend:
1. simple hooks which are solely based on the [API](/usage/sdk):
   - [`useApi`](#useapi)
   - [`useEntity`](#useentity)
2. query hooks that wraps the API in [SWR](https://swr.vercel.app/):
   - [`useApiQuery`](#useapiquery)
   - [`useEntityQuery`](#useentityquery)


## Setup
In order to use them, make sure you wrap your `<App />` inside `<ClientProvider />`, so that these hooks point to your bknd instance:

```tsx
import { ClientProvider } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   return <ClientProvider>
      {/* your app */}
   </ClientProvider>
}
```

For all other examples below, we'll assume that your app is wrapped inside the `ClientProvider`.

## `useApi()`
To use the simple hook that returns the Api, you can use:
```tsx
import { useApi } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   const api = useApi();
   // ...
}
```

## `useApiQuery()`
This hook wraps the API class in an SWR hook for convenience. You can use any API endpoint
supported, like so:
```tsx
import { useApiQuery } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   const { data, ...swr } = useApiQuery((api) => api.data.readMany("comments"));

   if (swr.error) return <div>Error</div>
   if (swr.isLoading) return <div>Loading...</div>

   return <pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</pre>
}
```

### Props
* `selector: (api: Api) => FetchPromise`

   The first parameter is a selector function that provides an Api instance and expects an
   endpoint function to be returned.

* `options`: optional object that inherits from `SWRConfiguration`

```ts
type Options <Data> = import("swr").SWRConfiguration & {
   enabled? : boolean;
   refine? : (data: Data) => Data | any;
}
```

      * `enabled`: Determines whether this hook should trigger a fetch of the data or not.
      * `refine`: Optional refinement that is called after a response from the API has been
  received. Useful to omit irrelevant data from the response (see example below).

### Using mutations
To query and mutate data using this hook, you can leverage the parameters returned. In the
following example we'll also use a `refine` function as well as `revalidateOnFocus` (option from
`SWRConfiguration`) so that our data keeps updating on window focus change.

```tsx
import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import { useApiQuery } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   const [text, setText] = useState("");
   const { data, api, mutate, ...q } = useApiQuery(
      (api) => api.data.readOne("comments", 1),
      {
         // filter to a subset of the response
         refine: (data) => data.data,
         revalidateOnFocus: true
      }
   );

   const comment = data ? data : null;

   useEffect(() => {
      setText(comment?.content ?? "");
   }, [comment]);

   if (q.error) return <div>Error</div>
   if (q.isLoading) return <div>Loading...</div>

   return (
      <form
         onSubmit={async (e) => {
            e.preventDefault();
            if (!comment) return;

            // this will automatically revalidate the query
            await mutate(async () => {
               const res = await api.data.updateOne("comments", comment.id, {
                  content: text
               });
               return res.data;
            });

            return false;
         }}
      >
         <input type="text" value={text} onChange={(e) => setText(e.target.value)} />
         <button type="submit">Update</button>
      </form>
   );
}
```

## `useEntity()`
This hook wraps the endpoints of `DataApi` and returns CRUD options as parameters:
```tsx
import { useState, useEffect } from "react";
import { useEntity } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   const [data, setData] = useState<any>();
   const { create, read, update, _delete } = useEntity("comments", 1);

   useEffect(() => {
      read().then(setData);
   }, []);

   return <pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</pre>
}
```
If you only supply the entity name as string without an ID, the `read` method will fetch a list
of entities instead of a single entry.

### Props
Following props are available when using `useEntityQuery([entity], [id?])`:
- `entity: string`: Specify the table name of the entity
- `id?: number | string`: If an id given, it will fetch a single entry, otherwise a list

### Returned actions
The following actions are returned from this hook:
- `create: (input: object)`: Create a new entry
- `read: (query: Partial<RepoQuery> = {})`: If an id was given,
it returns a single item, otherwise a list
- `update: (input: object, id?: number | string)`: If an id was given, the id parameter is
optional. Updates the given entry partially.
- `_delete: (id?: number | string)`: If an id was given, the id parameter is
optional. Deletes the given entry.

## `useEntityQuery()`
This hook wraps the actions from `useEntity` around `SWR`. The previous example would look like
this:
```tsx
import { useEntityQuery } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   const { data } = useEntityQuery("comments", 1);

   return <pre>{JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)}</pre>
}
```

### Using mutations
All actions returned from `useEntityQuery` are conveniently wrapped around the `mutate` function,
so you don't have think about this:
```tsx
import { useState, useEffect } from "react";
import { useEntityQuery } from "bknd/client";

export default function App() {
   const [text, setText] = useState("");
   const { data, update, ...q } = useEntityQuery("comments", 1);

   const comment = data ? data : null;

   useEffect(() => {
      setText(comment?.content ?? "");
   }, [comment]);

   if (q.error) return <div>Error</div>
   if (q.isLoading) return <div>Loading...</div>

   return (
      <form
         onSubmit={async (e) => {
            e.preventDefault();
            if (!comment) return;

            // this will automatically revalidate the query
            await update({ content: text });

            return false;
         }}
      >
         <input type="text" value={text} onChange={(e) => setText(e.target.value)} />
         <button type="submit">Update</button>
      </form>
   );
}
```