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A Beginner’s Guide To Nuxt 3

Fetching Data with useFetch and Matching HTTP Methods

Explore how to use the useFetch composable in Nuxt 3 to retrieve data and extend its functionality by specifying HTTP methods. Understand handling different request types on the server side by detecting methods in a single API file or using separate files for each. This lesson teaches managing data operations such as creating, updating, and deleting via API routes.

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When requesting data from our server so far, we have used the $fetch helper:

Javascript (babel-node)
const data = await $fetch('/api/posts')

The useFetch composable

We can also use other Nuxt data-fetching composables including useFetch():

Javascript (babel-node)
const data = await useFetch(
	"/api/posts"
);

This will also fetch the data from the provided URL. Behind the scenes, useFetch is a wrapper around the $fetch helper and useAsyncData.

Changing the HTTP method

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