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+---
+title: 'Vue Query'
+description: 'Combine pinia-orm with TanStack Query for fetching, caching and background refetching.'
+---
+
+# Using pinia-orm with Vue Query
+
+[TanStack Query](https://tanstack.com/query/latest/docs/framework/vue/overview) (Vue Query) handles fetching, caching, retries and background refetching — pinia-orm normalizes the fetched data and gives you relational access to it. They complement each other well: let Vue Query own the request lifecycle and persist every successful response into the store.
+
+## Setup
+
+```bash
+npm install @tanstack/vue-query pinia-orm
+```
+
+```ts
+// main.ts
+import { createApp } from 'vue'
+import { createPinia } from 'pinia'
+import { createORM } from 'pinia-orm'
+import { VueQueryPlugin } from '@tanstack/vue-query'
+import App from './App.vue'
+
+const app = createApp(App)
+
+app.use(createPinia().use(createORM()))
+app.use(VueQueryPlugin)
+app.mount('#app')
+```
+
+## A query-aware base repository
+
+Extend the repository with a `useQuery` helper that persists the response into the store and returns the hydrated models. The entity name doubles as the query key:
+
+```ts
+// repositories/QueryRepository.ts
+import type { Model } from 'pinia-orm'
+import { Repository } from 'pinia-orm'
+import type { UseQueryOptions } from '@tanstack/vue-query'
+import { useQuery } from '@tanstack/vue-query'
+
+export class QueryRepository<M extends Model = Model> extends Repository<M> {
+  useQuery (
+    queryFn: () => Promise<unknown>,
+    options: Omit<UseQueryOptions, 'queryKey' | 'queryFn'> = {},
+  ) {
+    return useQuery({
+      queryKey: [this.getModel().$entity()],
+      queryFn: async () => {
+        const data = await queryFn()
+        // Persist the response — components read the store, not the query data.
+        this.save(data as any)
+        return data
+      },
+      ...options,
+    })
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Usage in a component
+
+```vue
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import { computed } from 'vue'
+import { useRepo } from 'pinia-orm'
+import { QueryRepository } from '@/repositories/QueryRepository'
+import User from '@/models/User'
+
+const userRepo = useRepo(QueryRepository<User>).setModel(User)
+
+const { isLoading, isError, refetch } = userRepo.useQuery(
+  () => fetch('/api/users').then(response => response.json()),
+  { staleTime: 60_000 },
+)
+
+// Reactive, normalized and relation-aware — independent of the query cache.
+const users = computed(() => userRepo.withAll().get())
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <p v-if="isLoading">Loading…</p>
+  <p v-else-if="isError">Failed to load users.</p>
+  <ul v-else>
+    <li v-for="user in users" :key="user.id">{{ user.name }}</li>
+  </ul>
+  <button @click="refetch()">Refresh</button>
+</template>
+```
+
+::alert{type="info"}
+If the API response should be the single source of truth — including deletions — persist with `this.fresh(data)` instead of `this.save(data)`. See [Replacing Whole Data](/guide/repository/inserting-data#replacing-whole-data).
+::
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+---
+title: 'Axios'
+description: 'Use pinia-orm together with axios — with or without the official plugin.'
+---
+
+# Using pinia-orm with Axios
+
+The recommended way to combine pinia-orm with axios is the official [`@pinia-orm/axios` plugin](/plugins/axios/guide/setup), which persists responses automatically and adds a request API to every repository. This recipe shows both the plugin and the manual approach for cases where you want full control over the request layer.
+
+## With the plugin
+
+```ts
+// main.ts
+import { createApp } from 'vue'
+import { createPinia } from 'pinia'
+import { createORM } from 'pinia-orm'
+import { createPiniaOrmAxios } from '@pinia-orm/axios'
+import axios from 'axios'
+import App from './App.vue'
+
+const pinia = createPinia()
+pinia.use(createORM({
+  plugins: [
+    createPiniaOrmAxios({
+      axios,
+      baseURL: 'https://api.example.com',
+    }),
+  ],
+}))
+
+createApp(App).use(pinia).mount('#app')
+```
+
+```vue
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import { computed } from 'vue'
+import { useAxiosRepo } from '@pinia-orm/axios'
+import User from '@/models/User'
+
+const userRepo = useAxiosRepo(User)
+
+// Fetches /users and persists the response into the store.
+userRepo.api().get('/users')
+
+const users = computed(() => userRepo.all())
+</script>
+```
+
+**See also**: [Axios plugin usage](/plugins/axios/guide/usage) for `dataKey`, `persistBy: 'fresh'`, delete requests and custom actions.
+
+## Without the plugin
+
+A thin service layer keeps requests explicit — persist the response yourself:
+
+```ts
+// services/userService.ts
+import axios from 'axios'
+import { useRepo } from 'pinia-orm'
+import User from '@/models/User'
+
+export async function fetchUsers () {
+  const { data } = await axios.get('https://api.example.com/users')
+
+  // The response replaces the store content; use save() to merge instead.
+  return useRepo(User).fresh(data)
+}
+```
+
+```vue
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import { computed } from 'vue'
+import { useRepo } from 'pinia-orm'
+import { fetchUsers } from '@/services/userService'
+import User from '@/models/User'
+
+fetchUsers()
+
+const users = computed(() => useRepo(User).withAll().get())
+</script>
+```
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+title: Cookbook