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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