April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
6h 21m
English
Content preview from Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React - Third Edition
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Chapter 8: Consuming the REST API with React
This chapter explains networking with React. That is really important skill which we need in most of the React apps. We will learn about promises, which make asynchronous code cleaner and more readable. For networking, we will use the fetch and axios libraries. As an example, we will use the GitHub REST API to demonstrate how to consume RESTful web services with React.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Using promises
- Using the fetch API
- Using the axios library
- Practical examples
- Handling responses from the REST API
Technical requirements
In this book, we are using the Windows operating system, but all the tools are available for Linux and macOS via Node.js.
The following GitHub ...