Hi Guys👋,

As a largely self-taught developer 🧑‍🎓, Something I see again and again in tutorials performing HTTP requests is the use of a JavaScript library called Axios. I wanted to understand why such a wide range of web development educators was making use of this library 🤔. So I decided to dig in to deliver a very simple, straightforward explanation of what Axios offers and why it’s (probably) worth using. so with further delay, let's get started

What is Axios ?(A little bit of history) 🌎

Axios is a lightweight HTTP client based on the XMLHttpRequests service. It is similar to the Fetch API and is used to perform HTTP requests.

1. Axios is used to communicate with the backend and it also supports the Promise API that is native to JS ES6.
2. It is a library 📚 that is used to make requests to an API, return data from the API, and then do things with that data in our application.
3. Axios is a very popular (over 78k stars on Github) HTTP client, which allows us to make HTTP requests from the browser.

Features 👋👋

• Make XMLHttpRequests from the browser
• Make HTTP requests from node.js
• Supports the Promise API
• Intercept request and response
• Transform request and response data
• Cancel requests
• Automatic transforms for JSON data
• Client-side support for protecting against XSRF

  Installing Axios 😎😎

  The following command can be used for installing Axios using npm:

npm install axios

Making an HTTP GET request 🚗🚗

Axios can be used to perform a simple GET request. The syntax for this is​:

axios({
  url:'https://www.educative.io/',
  method: 'get'
})

Making an HTTP POST request 🏤🏤

Axios can similarly be used to perform a simple POST request. We can also send parameters in an object using the POST request. The syntax for this is:

axios({
  method: 'post',
  url: '/signup',
  data: {
    user: 'abcd1234',
    pass: 'pwd1234'
  }
})

Advantage of Axios over Fetch API 💪💪

1. supports older browsers
2. has a way to abort a request
3. has a way to set a response timeout
4. has built-in CSRF protection
5. supports upload progress
6. performs automatic JSON data transformation.

conclusion💁‍♂️💁‍♂️

Axios makes developers' life easy with its awesome functionality. hope you like this short article if so then share and do like my article.......till then goodby 👋👋 happy hacking🙇🙇