using axios in nodejs

axios is Promise based Http Client for the browser and node.js

install axios into your nodejs project using below command.

    npm install axios

import axios using below statement.

     const axios = require('axios');

Below sample code to shows how to use axios. since axios returns promise object handle success and error data with then() and catch() callback functions.

app.get("/yourapi", function(req, res, next) => {
    axios.get("https://replace/your/url/here")
    .then(function (response) {
        // handle success
        return res.send(response.data);
    })
    .catch(function (error) {
        // handle error
        console.log(error);
        // return res.send(error["message"]); // send response or 
        next(error); // pass error to global error handler
  })
})

global error handler example. make sure you use error handler middleware at the end of entry script file(index/server.js file).

    app.use(function (err, req, res, next) {
      res.status(500).send(err["message");
    })

References

• axios
• error handler