Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Creating a user

The create method will take user data from the view component, which is where we will invoke this method. Then, it will use fetch to make a POST call at the create API route, '/api/users', to create a new user in the backend with the provided data.

mern-skeleton/client/user/api-user.js:

const create = async (user) => {  try {      let response = await fetch('/api/users/', {        method: 'POST',        headers: {          'Accept': 'application/json',          'Content-Type': 'application/json'        },        body: JSON.stringify(user)      })    return await response.json()  } catch(err) {    console.log(err)  }}

Finally, in this method, we return the response from the server as a promise. So, the component calling this method can use this promise to handle the response appropriately, ...