Steps to Create a React App and Installing Axios
Step 1: Create a new react app and enter into it by running the following commands provided below.
npx create-react-app axios-demo
cd axios-demo
Step 2: Install axios dependency by running the command provided below.
npm install axios
The updated Dependencies in package.json file of frontend will look like:
"dependencies": {
"@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.17.0",
"@testing-library/react": "^13.4.0",
"@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
"axios": "^1.6.7",
"react": "^18.2.0",
"react-dom": "^18.2.0",
"react-scripts": "5.0.1",
"web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
}
How to send Basic Auth with Axios in React & Node ?
Basic Auth is a simple authentication scheme. It involves sending a username and password with each request to the server through HTTP. Axios is a popular HTTP client for making requests in JavaScript.
In this article, we will create a React App to demonstrate sending basic Auth with Axios and discuss the following approaches:
Table of Content
- Basic approach with Inline Header
- Creating an Instance of Axios
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