Why do people still use Axios over Fetch?
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why people still use Axios over Fetch, and why people wouldn’t use Axios.
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Show Notes
- 00:22 Welcome
- Twitter thread of questions from listeners
- 01:25 Sponsor: Linode
- 02:07 Sponsor: Sentry
- 03:04 What’s Axios?
- Syntax 224 - Serverless Cloud Functions
- 04:10 Why someone wouldn’t use Axios?
- 07:06 Interceptors
- 09:30 Catching expired JWT and renewing it
- 10:26 Upload or download progress events
- 12:03 Valid status API
- 13:45 Defaults
- 15:32 Custom timeouts
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