Setting up a timeout for HTTP requests can prevent the connection from hanging forever, waiting for the response. It can be set on the client side to improve user experience, and on the server side to improve inter-service communication.

axios package provides a timeout parameter for this functionality.

const HTTP_TIMEOUT = 3000;
const URL = 'https://www.google.com:81';

(async () => {
  try {
    await axios(URL, {
      timeout: HTTP_TIMEOUT,
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Request timed out', error.cause);
  }
})();

Use this snippet also to simulate aborted requests.

Demo

The demo with the mentioned example is available here.