Automatic Link Prefetching vs Manual Prefetching: Trade‑off Between Latency Reduction and Network Usage in React Router
When users click rapidly between links in a React Router v6 application, loader‑based data fetching can cause cancelled requests and increased latency. One way to mitigate this is to prefetch route data before navigation using the <Link prefetch> prop or the experimental unstable_prefetchData function. However, enabling prefetching automatically for ev