Learn React Hooks

Setting up the libraries

Before we can start using axios and react-request-hook, we have to set up an axios instance and a RequestProvider component.

Let's get started setting up the libraries:

1. First, we install the libraries:

> npm install --save react-request-hook axios

2. Then, we import them in src/index.js:

import { RequestProvider } from 'react-request-hook'import axios from 'axios'

3. Now, we define an axios instance, where we set the baseURL to http://localhost:3000/api/—our backend server:

const axiosInstance = axios.create({    baseURL: 'http://localhost:3000/api/'})

In the config for our axios instance, we can also define other options, such as a default timeout for requests, or custom headers. For more information, check out the ...