Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Fetching the create post API in the view

We will update api-post.js by adding a create method to make a fetch call to the create API. The create fetch method will look as follows.

mern-social/client/post/api-post.js:

const create = async (params, credentials, post) => {  try {    let response = await fetch('/api/posts/new/'+ params.userId, {      method: 'POST',      headers: {        'Accept': 'application/json',        'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + credentials.t      },      body: post    })    return await response.json()  } catch(err) {    console.log(err)  }}

This method, like the user edit fetch method, will send a multipart form submission using a FormData object that will contain the text field and the image file. Finally, we are ready to integrate this create new post feature in ...