Possible to run updateQueryData before query is initiated

[frankleng]

I have an endpoint that doesn't need to fetch until a mutation occurs.

I'd like to implement optimistic update -
running updateQueryData once mutation starts, but has yet to be fulfilled..

but seems like running updateQueryData on an uninitiated query is a no-op. everything works fine if I fetch first.

is there a workaround? perhaps initiate it with empty state somehow?

[phryneas]

This just rolled out with the latest alpha: #1720

[frankleng]

This just rolled out with the latest alpha: #1720

awesome. thank you!

[phryneas]

But please be aware that it seems there was a bug in that alpha release that prevented upserts from actually happening. See the thread above where we discussed that - #2669 contains a fix and a CodeSandbox CI build of the package you can install and use.