Axios vs Fetch — Which To Use in 2019

Comparing two approaches to making HTTP calls in JavaScript

Malcolm Laing
Nov 2 · 3 min read
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Axios is a celebrated JavaScript module. It’s a promise-based HTTP client for browsers and NodeJS. If you have worked as a JavaScript during the last few years, you have used it.

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Malcolm Laing

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Front End Engineer in Berlin. Loves React, building component libraries, module bundling, and testing.

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