Consuming the REST API with React

This chapter explains networking with React. We will learn about promises, which make asynchronous code cleaner and more readable. For networking, we will use the fetch library. As an example, we use the GitHub REST API to demonstrate how to consume RESTful Web Services with React.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

• Using promises
• How to use Fetch
• How to make requests to the REST API
• How to handle responses from the REST API
• How to create a React app that consumes the REST API