Writing the Requests Service
Get introduced to JavaScript library Axios and learn to send HTTP requests to REST endpoint using Axios.
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Now that we understand the authentication flow from the frontend side, let’s write the requests service we will use for data fetching and performing CRUD actions.
Making requests in JavaScript is relatively easy. The node environment and the browser provide native packages such as fetch
to allow you to request a server. However, this project will use the axios
package for HTTP requests.
Axios Installation
Axios is a popular library mainly used to send asynchronous HTTP requests to REST endpoints. Axios is the perfect library for CRUD operations. However, we will also install axios-auth-refresh
. This simple library assists with an automatic refresh of tokens via axios
interceptors. To install the axios
and axios-auth-refresh
packages, we follow these steps:
Step 1
In the social-media-app
directory, add the axios
and axios-auth-refresh
packages by running the following command:
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