expo-data-fetching

An agent skill by expo, from expo/skills. Tags: mobile, react-native, web.

What it does

Framework (OSS). Use when implementing or debugging ANY network request, API call, or data fetching. Covers fetch API, React Query, SWR, error handling, caching, offline support, loading/empty/error screen states, and Expo Router data loaders (`useLoaderData`).

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add expo/skills --skill expo-data-fetching

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/expo/skills
cp -r skills/plugins/expo/skills/expo-data-fetching ~/.claude/skills/expo-data-fetching

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Source

Repository

expo/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

plugins/expo/skills/expo-data-fetching/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Collection

expo

Updated

2026-09-22

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