Dev tools feature: button to pause/unpause all refetching

[mturley]

I have a UI with refetchInterval set on all my queries, and when trying to debug some things I have console.logs that trigger on every render. It would be really nice to be able to wait for a few render cycles and then temporarily pause RQ so I don't get any new fetches/renders until I'm done looking through my log.

[TkDodo]

Not sure how to do that from just the devtools. Maybe you can do that in your code by setting the enabled option conditionally ?

[mturley]

Yeah, I was thinking just some kind of global switch in the dev tools that overrides enabled and sets all queries to enabled: false while it's turned on essentially. A toggle for "disable all".

[TkDodo]

the devtools just observe the queryCache, and then interact with it via the public methods of the queryClient, like queryClient.invalidateQueries, queryClient.refetchQueries etc. We could setQueryDefaults on the queries, but that doesn't guarantee that it hasn't been overwritten by actual useQuery calls.

[mturley]

ah that makes sense, okay. so the internals would need to be modified to make this possible, which it sounds like isn't worth it.