React Send API call on Link hover to preload data

Question

I'm trying to improve the UI of my React app, and one thing I want to try and work out is how to pre fire an API call when a user hovers over a link, so by the time they're clicked through, the data has already been loaded and FakeAPI.jsx has already populated the state with the data from the API call

Currently I've got the below:

//Home.jsx

import {Link} from 'react-router-dom';

const Home = () => {
    return (
        <div className="links">
            //I would want to load the API call when a user hovers on the below link
            <Link to="/fakeApi">Fake Api</Link>
        </div>
    );
};

export default Home;

And then the API call

//FakeApi.jsx
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';

const FakeApi = () => {

const [data, setData] = useState([])

useEffect(()=>{
    setTimeout(() => {
        //simulates an api call to the backend
        setData(['1','2','3'])
    }, 250);
}, [])



    return (
        <div>
            Fake Api call
            {data.map(entry=>(
                <div key={entry}>number is {entry}</div>
            ))}
        </div>
    );
};

export default FakeApi;

The only solution i've come up with so far is to put the api call in home.jsx, and then call it on hover and pass the data through as props,

as per below:

//Home.jsx
import React from 'react';
import {Link} from 'react-router-dom';
import LinkWithPreload from '../shared/LinkWithPreload';

const Home = () => {

    const [data, setData] = useState([])

    useEffect(()=>{
        setTimeout(() => {
            //simulates an api call to the backend
            setData(['1','2','3'])
        }, 1000);
    }, [])

    return (
        <div className="links">
            <Link to="/fakeApi" props={data}>Fake Api</Link>
        </div>
    );
};

export default Home;

however in reality home.jsx is a very big file with several other functions and API calls, and I'm trying to keep it tidy so I'm looking for another solution - to keep each call to a route,

Thanks for your help!