Discussion on: Must I use Nextjs Data Fetching Methods?

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Replies for: What are you using for data fetching? If apollo then see next.js apollo example, apollo needs additional code for SSR

NJOKU SAMSON EBERE • Jun 9 '20

I use node-fetch.

Maybe I should tryout Appolo then

Saurabh Sharma • Jun 9 '20

Apollo is only for graphql

Saurabh Sharma • Jun 9 '20

Are you getting any error?

NJOKU SAMSON EBERE • Jun 9 '20

No errors. Nothing comes up in my console at all.

That’s more reason why it is frustrating 😆

Louis-André Labadie • Jun 10 '20

node-fetch is specifically a NodeJS library. With Next, if a page is rendered on the server, it will run in a Node environment. If it's rendered by the browser, it will run in the browser.

If you try to use node-fetch in the browser, it will probably fail. What you can try is to replace node-fetch with isomorphic-fetch, which will give you an equivalent fetch method you can safely use in both environments.

NJOKU SAMSON EBERE • Jun 10 '20

Thank you Louis. I will check that out