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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