React Data Fetching: Axios

Hello there, today we'll go over how to get data in React in the simplest way possible utilizing React Hooks (useState and useEffect), the axios library, and a mock API (JSON Placeholder

Let's fetch some data, shall we?

Make a directory and create a react app with this command
npx create-react-app .

Install the axios package: npm install axios

Create a new component and call it whatever you like. I'll call it 'Fetching' for the purposes of this lesson.

import React from "react";

const Fetching = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Fetching my Data</h1>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Fetching;

Now we need to construct the method that will retrieve our data from the API.

import axios from "axios";
import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";

function Fetching() {
  const [posts, setPosts] = useState([]);
  useEffect(() => {
    axios
      .get(`https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts`)
      .then((res) => {
        console.log(res);
        setPosts(res.data);
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        console.log(err);
      });
  }, []);
  return (
    <div className="output">
      <h1>Data Fetching </h1>
      <ul>
        {posts.map((post) => (
          <li key={post.id}>
            <p>Post id: {post.id}</p>
            {post.title}
          </li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    </div>
  );
}

export default Fetching;

Import Fetching into your app

import "./App.css";
import Fetching from "./Fetching";

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Fetching />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

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Conclusion

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