Introduction   In modern web development, making HTTP requests is a fundamental task.... Tagged with http, javascript, development.

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Making HTTP requests is essential in modern web development; while JavaScript's built-in Fetch API offers a promise-based method for this, the third-party Axios library provides additional features like automatic JSON parsing, comprehensive error handling, and request/response interceptors. Choosing between Fetch and Axios depends on the complexity of your needs and preference for functionality versus simplicity.

Axios vs Fetch

Even tough I understand why people uses axios. But since fetch came out it feels like it’s not needed anymore. Having a Package to cut a few lines in your code does Not make sense. I use fetch these days.

Also worth mentioning that, under the hood, I believe Axios uses XHR.

You don’t want to use axios if you want to use one of the slimmer edge runtimes. Works well in lambdas and a simple node.js servers though.