Open Discussion: Why People Prefer Axios over Fetch?

José Pablo Ramírez Vargas - Oct 16 '22 - - Dev Community

Hello community! I come with what I consider an interesting question because I continue to see the Axios library referred a lot everywhere, even in simple samples, as opposed to the standardized fetch() function which is now also available in NodeJS v18.

My question for you all is: Why do you (or others, in your opinion) continue to prefer Axios over fetch()? I am no front-end developer, so pardon my ignorance if it is a big thing I am unaware of. Yes, I do my backend mostly in ASP.net.

I'll try to compile all your answers here by editing regularly as people respond.

Thank you!


Results

Ok, so let's start tabulating things:

Feature Fetch Axios
Master configuration (headers and such) ✔️
People used to Axios ✔️
No extra library (still needs wrapper) ✔️
No installation ✔️
XSRF ✔️
Download progress ✔️ ✔️
Upload progress ✔️
1-step JSON response ✔️
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