use-http-api

A React hook to easily manage HTTP requests via Axios

Install

npm install --save use-http-api

yarn add --save use-http-api

Quickstart

import React, { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
import useApi from 'use-http-api';

/**
 * Quickstart
 */
const UserList = () => {
    const [{ loading, data }, getUsers] = useApi({
        url: 'https://reqres.in/api/users',
        defaultData: { data: [] },
    });

    return (
        <div>
            {loading ? (
                'Loading...'
            ) : (
                <ol>
                    {data.data.map(user => (
                        <li>{user.email}</li>
                    ))}
                </ol>
            )}
            <button onClick={() => getUsers()}>Update</button>
        </div>
    );
};

API

useApi Hook

import useApi from 'use-http-api';

const [response, triggerRequest] = useApi(config);

Where config is defined as:

type UseApiArgs = {
    /**
     * HTTP Method. Defaults to 'GET'
     */
    method: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PATCH' | 'PUT' | 'DELETE' | 'OPTIONS',

    /**
     * Required: the request URL -- optionally use ApiContext to set a baseUrl
     */
    url: string,

    /**
     * Optional: default data to return before the request has been completed.
     * If this isn't set, the response data will contain null until a succesful
     * request has completed.
     */
    defaultData?: object | any[],

    /**
     * Optional: data to send in POST/PATCH/PUT
     */
    bodyData?: object | any[],

    /**
     * Optional: whether the request should be triggered immediately. Set to false
     * if you want to invoke the request yourself. Defaults to true
     */
    autoTrigger: boolean,
};

useApi returns a [response, triggerRequest] array with a response object and method to (re-)trigger the request:

type UseApiResponse = [
    {
        /**
         * True if request is currently awaiting a response.
         */
        loading: boolean,

        /**
         * Data from the response body.
         */
        data: null | object | any[],

        /**
         * Any errors caught during the request cycle
         */
        error: any,

        /**
         * The HTTP status code
         */
        status: number,

        /**
         * True unless and until the request has been triggered at least once
         */
        initialLoad: boolean,

        /**
         * True if no request have been triggered, or if currently awaiting a
         * response
         */
        pendingOrLoading: boolean,

        /**
         * The full Axios response object
         */
        responseObj: object,
    },
    /**
     * Request Trigger function. Call with optiional body data for
     * POST/PATCH/PUT requests.
     *
     * Return a Promise that resolves with the data from response body, or any
     * errors thrown.
     */
    (requestData?: any[] | object) => Promise<any>,
];

ApiContext

You can use ApiContext to provde default Axios configuration.

import { ApiContext } from 'use-http-api';

const ExampleWithConfig = () => (
    <ApiContext.Provider
        value={{
            headers: {
                'X-Custom-Header': 'Foobar',
            },
        }}
    >
        <ComponentWithUseApi />
    </ApiContext.Provider>
);

Examples

import React, { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
import useApi, { ApiContext } from 'use-http-api';

/**
 * Quickstart
 */
const UserList = () => {
    const [{ loading, data }, getUsers] = useApi({
        url: 'https://reqres.in/api/users',
        defaultData: { data: [] },
    });

    return (
        <div>
            {loading ? (
                'Loading...'
            ) : (
                <ol>
                    {data.data.map(user => (
                        <li>{user.email}</li>
                    ))}
                </ol>
            )}
            <button onClick={() => getUsers()}>Update</button>
        </div>
    );
};

/**
 * Set autoTrigger to false to manually trigger the request, e.g. in an event
 * handler.
 */
const LoginForm = () => {
    const [{ initialLoad, loading, data }, createUser] = useApi({
        method: 'POST',
        url: 'https://reqres.in/api/users',
        autoTrigger: false,
    });

    const nameRef = useRef();
    const jobRef = useRef();
    const handleOnClick = () =>
        createUser({ name: nameRef.current.value, job: jobRef.current.value });

    return (
        <div>
            <div>
                <input ref={nameRef} label="Name" />
                <input ref={jobRef} label="Job" />
            </div>
            <div>
                <button onClick={handleOnClick}>Create</button>
            </div>
            <div>
                Response:
                <pre>
                    {loading && 'Loading...\n'}
                    {initialLoad ? 'You must create a user first' : JSON.stringify(data)}
                </pre>
            </div>
        </div>
    );
};

/**
 * Use ApiContext to provide global Axios configurations defaults.
 * See https://github.com/axios/axios#request-config
 */
const UserListWithConfig = () => (
    <ApiContext.Provider
        value={{
            headers: {
                'X-Custom-Header': 'Foobar',
            },
        }}
    >
        <UserList />
    </ApiContext.Provider>
);

/**
 * Manually trigger network request that depends on some side effect.
 * Use pendingOrLoading to display a placeholder state until the request
 * completes.
 *
 * The pendingOrLoading return true if no requests have yet been triggered, or
 * if a network request is currently in progress.
 */
const UserListManualTrigger = () => {
    const [{ pendingOrLoading, data }, getUsers] = useApi({
        url: 'https://reqres.in/api/users',
        defaultData: { data: [] },
        autoTrigger: false,
    });

    useEffect(() => {
        setTimeout(getUsers, 6000);
    }, []);

    return (
        <div>
            {pendingOrLoading ? (
                'Request has either not yet been triggered or, is currently loading...'
            ) : (
                <ol>
                    {data.data.map(user => (
                        <li>{user.email}</li>
                    ))}
                </ol>
            )}
            <button onClick={() => getUsers()}>Update</button>
        </div>
    );
};

License

MIT © swrichards

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This hook is created using create-react-hook.