Handling ajax with React

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Solution 1

Just in case anybody stumbled upon this and does not know, jQuery makes it super easy to send AJAX calls. Since React is just JavaScript it will work just like any other jQuery AJAX call.

React's own documentation uses jQuery to make the AJAX call so I assume that's good enough for most purposes regardless or stack.

componentDidMount: function() {
    $.ajax({
      url: this.props.url,
      dataType: 'json',
      cache: false,
      success: function(data) {
        this.setState({data: data});
      }.bind(this),
      error: function(xhr, status, err) {
        console.error(this.props.url, status, err.toString());
      }.bind(this)
    });
  },

Solution 2

Kindly checkout the official documentation of Facebook about Complementary Tools at https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools

They simply recommends few data fetching API's like

axios: Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js.
jQuery AJAX: No introduction needed.
superagent: A lightweight "isomorphic" library for AJAX requests.
reqwest: AJAX all over again. Includes support for xmlHttpRequest, JSONP, CORS, and CommonJS Promises A. Browser support stretches back to IE6.

My personal favorite would be axios due to promises which works in browser as well as in nodejs env and even officially reactJS website recommend the same at AJAX and APIs

Solution 3

You can use JavaScript Fetch API, it supports GET and POST as well, plus it has building Promises.

fetch('/api/getSomething').then(function() {...})

Solution 4

I would not use JQuery, since AJAX calls is actually not that complex and JQuery is a pretty big dependency. See vanillajs' note on doing AJAX calls without libraries: http://vanilla-js.com/

Solution 5

I definitely proffer you to use Fetch API. It is very simple to understand, supports all methods and you can use async/await instead of promise/then and call back hell.

For example:

fetch(`https://httpbin.org/get`,{
    method: `GET`,
    headers: {
        'authorization': 'BaseAuth W1lcmxsa='
    }
}).then((res)=>{
    if(res.ok) {
        return res.json();
    }
}).then((res)=>{
    console.log(res); // It is like final answer of XHR or jQuery Ajax
})

In better way or async/await way:

(async function fetchAsync () {
    let data = await (await fetch(`https://httpbin.org/get`,{
                                method: `GET`,
                                headers: {
                                    'authorization': 'BaseAuth W1lcmxsa='
                                }
                            })).json();
                      console.log(data);
})();

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Updated on April 20, 2020

Comments

user2442241 about 4 years

How should I handle ajax requests in a fairly traditional web application? Specifically with using React for views, while having a backend that handles data such as text and what not, but using ajax to automatically save user interactions such as toggling options or liking a post to the server.

Should I just use jQuery for this, or would something like Backbone be more beneficial?
ivarni almost 9 years

It's a huge library to pull in just for an AJAX wrapper though. The compressed version of 2.x they have up for download is 82 KB. That's a lot for a wrapper that can probably be written in few enough codelines to fit on the screen.
PythonIsGreat almost 9 years

Yeah you're right about that, but there is still so much I use jQuery for, besides just the Ajax call. It's a pain to download it with React, but jQuery is still too helpful for me to get rid of entirely.
thom_nic over 8 years

On the topic of jquery being huge: alternatives include superagent and reqwest. Both have very similar APIs but superagent is only 10kB by comparison.
gtournie over 8 years

you can just add the ajax part of jQuery: stackoverflow.com/questions/4132163/…
Adrian Lynch about 8 years

How do you handle cancelling an in-flight request?
IntoTheDeep over 7 years

I got $ is not defined
circuitry over 7 years

currently this is not a good option for react native: caniuse.com/#feat=fetch
Plaul over 7 years

Of course you can use fetch with React Native (I do) The link you provide shows browser compatibility. React is not a browser (hybrid) technology, so you can just include fetch via npm.
Omegalen about 7 years

For anyone thinking about using fetch in your frontend, please consider that there is no IE support unless you use some sort of polyfill like github.com/github/fetch, which even then is limited to IE 10+
igneosaur almost 7 years

If you're using React these days you're probably (should be) using Babel anyway so fetch is fine.
AmerllicA over 6 years

Using jQuery isn't advised, I prefer to use fetch.
AmerllicA over 6 years

Using react-ajax is ridiculous, I can not find it out, I prefer to use fetch and use async/await for better understanding and fluent coding.
Emil Ingerslev over 6 years

Indeed. ‘fetch’ are these days the goto solution for doing HTTP requests 👍