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React Application Architecture for Production

You're reading from   React Application Architecture for Production Learn best practices and expert tips to deliver enterprise-ready React web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070539
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan Alickovic Alan Alickovic
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Understanding the Architecture of React Applications 2. Chapter 2: Setup and Project Structure Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building and Documenting Components 4. Chapter 4: Building and Configuring Pages 5. Chapter 5: Mocking the API 6. Chapter 6: Integrating the API into the Application 7. Chapter 7: Implementing User Authentication and Global Notifications 8. Chapter 8: Testing 9. Chapter 9: Configuring CI/CD for Testing and Deployment 10. Chapter 10: Going Beyond 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring the API client

For the API client of our application, we will be using Axios, a very popular library for handling HTTP requests. It is supported in both the browser and the server and has an API for creating instances, intercepting requests and responses, canceling requests, and so on.

Let’s start by creating an instance of Axios, which will include some common things we want to be done on every request.

Create the src/lib/api-client.ts file and add the following:

import Axios from 'axios';
import { API_URL } from '@/config/constants';
export const apiClient = Axios.create({
  baseURL: API_URL,
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
});
apiClient.interceptors.response.use(
  (response) => {
    return response.data;
  },
  (error) => {
    const message =
   ...
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