How to finish all fetch before executing next function in React?

Question

Using ReactJS, I have two different API points that I am trying to get and restructure: students and scores. They are both an array of objects.

Answer 1

Your code mixes continuation callbacks and Promises. You'll find it easier to reason about it you use one approach for async flow control. Let's use Promises, because fetch uses them.

// Refactor getStudents and getScores to return  Promise for their response bodies
function getStudents(){
  return fetch(`api/students`, {
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }).then((response) => response.json())
};

function getScores(){
  return fetch(`api/scores`, {
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }).then((response) => response.json())
};

// Request both students and scores in parallel and return a Promise for both values.
// `Promise.all` returns a new Promise that resolves when all of its arguments resolve.
function getStudentsAndScores(){
  return Promise.all([getStudents(), getScores()])
}

// When this Promise resolves, both values will be available.
getStudentsAndScores()
  .then(([students, scores]) => {
    // both have loaded!
    console.log(students, scores);
  })

As well as being simpler, this approach is more efficient because it makes both requests at the same time; your approach waited until the students were fetched before fetching the scores.

See Promise.all on MDN