Why Axios is Preferable to Fetch

The differences between Axios and Fetch and which should you use?

Sumeet Bhalla
JavaScript in Plain English
5 min readAug 3, 2021

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Axios is a JavaScript library used to make HTTP requests from Node.js or XMLHttpRequests from the browser and it supports the Promise API that is native to JavaScript ES6. Another feature that it has over .fetch() is that it performs automatic transforms of JSON data.

Fetch()

Fetch() is part of a JavaScript window-object method within the Fetch API. It is built-in.Fetch() allows us to get data from the API…

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