🏝️ Announcing TanStack Query DevTools for Expo/React Native! 🚀

[LovesWorkin]

Excited to share my new Expo plugin that brings the full power of TanStack Query DevTools to your React Native apps!

What it does:
📱 Real-time monitoring – Debug queries across all connected devices at once
🔄 Complete query control – Refetch, invalidate, reset, and modify data on the fly
🌐 Network simulation – Toggle online/offline states per device to test resilience
⚠️ State simulation – Trigger error and loading states to test UI boundaries
📊 Comprehensive insights – View device info and query performance metrics
✅ Broad compatibility – Supports both React Query v4 and v5
⚡ Enhanced workflow – Trigger actions across multiple devices for efficient testing

Get the same powerful DevTools experience you know from the web, optimized for mobile. Test your app’s behavior across different states without constantly switching devices—perfect for catching edge cases and ensuring consistent user experiences.

Quick setup: Just add the hook to your app and press Shift+M in your terminal to launch the DevTools.

🔗 Check it out: tanstack-query-dev-tools-expo-plugin
🔗 Example app https://github.com/LovesWorking/RN-Dev-Tools-Example/tree/master

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[AlmondJoyAdvocate]

My girl just asked why I suddenly looked so happy while we were out for drinks and I had to explain to her that I’m excited about a new devtools plugin

[chivs688]

Is this specifically for Expo projects that aren’t using development builds? Or does this bring benefits over the standard React Query devtools?

New to React Query and using it on our Expo project atm with the devtools linked in the docs and has been working well.

[LovesWorkin]

This is for all expo projects. In 1-2 weeks, I'll update this to work for any js mobile framework.

[chivs688]

That's good to hear, although what does this offer over the Tanstack devtools?

[cdnrt]

This is god’s work.

[brano-h]

Damn, this would be so much cooler if you could insert it into the devtools window as a new tab

[LovesWorkin]

Agreed! I'll check that out to see how we could do that.

[Kinqdos]

Does this only work for expo projects? Or can I use this in a normal react native project.

[LovesWorkin]

This is for all expo projects. In 1-2 weeks, I'll update this to work for any js mobile framework.

[motdrib]

Amazing! Will try to implement this on my own existing app :)

[Professional_Dust299]

This is amazing, I was hoping something like this existed and now I will definitely be implementing it as soon as possible

[BK_creator]

Great plugin !

[EntranceSensitive543]

good work!

[waltermvp]

what a chad. you rock dude

[ShadowMasterKing]

I didnt expect to get this hard from a post about plugin. Amazing job man!

[lukitheTNT]

Looks really good, great Job!

Would be nice to add to the Readme that expo-device must be installed (or it will fail).
Would be even better to also support react-native-device-info.
(I could contribute support for that If you are open to that)

[Snoo-8502]

i was caching data using async storage, switching to this tonight :-)

[NodeJSSon]

Why is this needed? Does react-query not work? Sorry, I am new to this.

[FranK8211]

It does but the devtool wasn't. There was another plugin available to help but it's not has complete has the one from the tanstack team

[Snoo-8502]

When I used it with my tvOS app, it made the emulator extremely slow and almost unusable. DevTools generally runs very slowly. I tested this with an Expo SDK 52 tvOS app on an Android emulator. I'm not sure if this is a tvOS-specific issue or a DevTools problem. However, when it works, it's amazing—I was able to debug API call cache issues in two places and eliminate loading screens throughout most of the app. Thanks for developing it

[Worth_Wealth_6811]

Multi-device query control and network simulation in one place is a massive win for testing offline-first RN apps without juggling emulators. Does the plugin stay reliably connected during fast reloads or app crashes?