Why Do People Still Use the Axios Instead of Fetch?

Axios can perform similar tasks, such as making API calls and sending requests to a server, just like Fetch.

Why do people still use the Axios library when Fetch is already built-in?

Does Axios make the data fetching process faster, or are there other benefits to using it?

Here are some reasons on why Axios is still being used

• Axios existed much before Fetch. It's rarely worth replacing a key dependency in an old product unless it's actively causing problems; something being newer and shinier isn't a good reason on its own to migrate.

• Axios is backwards compatible with IE11 without needing a polyfill, and Fetch polyfills tend to only be a little smaller than the whole Axios library.

• Axios has a lot of nice built-in behaviour like throwing errors on 400 and 500 response codes and auto-parsing JSON; you have to implement this yourself with Fetch.

• Axios allows you to easily create dedicated HTTP clients with headers, a partial URL, etc built in so you don't have to supply them every time; you'd have to implement this yourself with Fetch. This is incredibly useful if your application needs to talk to multiple APIs.