HTTP, GraphQL and sockets

TanStack Query is the most-starred entry and manages server state: caching, background refetching, retries, pagination and invalidation, with a Vue adapter for Vue 2 and 3. swrv applies the stale-while-revalidate pattern in a smaller package, and vue-request offers similar composables with polling and caching. These libraries sit on top of fetch or the HTTP client of your choice rather than replacing it.

For GraphQL, vue-apollo integrates Apollo Client with Vue and offers composables in its current major version; check that the release you install matches your Vue version. vue-api-query builds REST requests in an ActiveRecord style, and vue-vroom generates typed stores with a mock API. In Nuxt, the built-in useFetch and useAsyncData cover many fetching needs with SSR support, so add a library when you need richer caching or mutations.