Fetching data using the Fetch API in React
Fetch API is an inbuilt API in a web browser that provides the JavaScript interface for communication over the internet using HTTP. Every web browser has a JavaScript engine as a runtime to compile and run JavaScript code.
The React ecosystem relies inarguably on JavaScript. This is a fact and one of the reasons you are expected to understand modern JavaScript before delving into React application development.
As a React developer, you will need network resources to build web applications. The fetch()
method provides you with the means to access and manipulate HTTP object requests and HTTP protocol responses. Let’s say that in our web application, we want to display the list of conference speakers and their associated data. This information is housed in another resource database server.
From a third-party public API, we are going to consume the user’s resource to fetch hypothetical data to be used in our React application...