Discussion on: Axios Async/Await with Retry

[Ayelen]

Hi, If I dont want use the timeout , I just do the retries when my api have a error status 400 or 500. it can work?. because dont work me

[Yogi Saputro]

Hi,
It's okay to not use timeout.
In this case, if you receive 400 or 500 status, it will automatically retry the request.
However, please note that those response are considered error, so it will be catched.

To handle 400 or 500 status, put your logic after catch(error)

const rax = require('retry-axios');
const axios = require('axios');

rax.attach();
const myRequest = async () => {
  try {
    const myConfig = {
      raxConfig: {
        retry: 5, // number of retry when facing 400 or 500
        onRetryAttempt: err => {
          const cfg = rax.getConfig(err);
          console.log(`Retry attempt #${cfg.currentRetryAttempt}`); // track current trial
        }
      },
    }
    const req = await axios.get('https://mock.codes/500', myConfig);
    console.log(req.data);
  } catch (error) {
    // 400 or 500 response will be handled here
    console.log(error.response.status);
    // continue your code here ...
  }
}

myRequest();

Hope this helps.