Making GET Requests with Axios
Install Axios, make a GET request to a public API inside useEffect, store the response in state, and render the fetched data in a FlatList.
Why Axios Over Fetch?
fetch is built into React Native but requires boilerplate: manually calling .json(), checking response.ok for HTTP errors, and handling timeouts. Axios is an HTTP client library that automatically parses JSON responses, throws on HTTP error status codes, supports request timeouts natively, and provides a clean interceptor API for global headers and error handling.
Installing Axios
Add Axios to your project with npm or yarn. It has no native dependencies, so no additional linking steps are required for either Expo or bare React Native projects.
npm install axios
# or
yarn add axiosAll lessons in this course
- The useEffect Hook and Dependency Arrays
- Making GET Requests with Axios
- Handling Loading and Error States
- POST, PUT, and DELETE with Axios