What is stale-while-revalidate?

It is a caching strategy that returns cached data immediately while fetching fresh data in the background.

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It improves perceived performance by showing data instantly while still keeping information up to date.

Yes, temporarily. However, fresh data is fetched and displayed shortly afterward.

It is commonly used in dashboards, feeds, product catalogs, and profile pages.

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