How to make a rest post call from ReactJS code?

Question

I am new to ReactJS and UI and I wanted to know how to make a simple REST based POST call from ReactJS code.

If there is any example present it would be really h

Answer 1

Here is a util function modified (another post on stack) for get and post both. Make Util.js file.

let cachedData = null;
let cachedPostData = null;

const postServiceData = (url, params) => {
    console.log('cache status' + cachedPostData );
    if (cachedPostData === null) {
        console.log('post-data: requesting data');
        return fetch(url, {
            method: 'POST',
            headers: {
              'Accept': 'application/json',
              'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            },
            body: JSON.stringify(params)
          })
        .then(response => {
            cachedPostData = response.json();
            return cachedPostData;
        });
    } else {
        console.log('post-data: returning cachedPostData data');
        return Promise.resolve(cachedPostData);
    }
}

const getServiceData = (url) => {
    console.log('cache status' + cachedData );
    if (cachedData === null) {
        console.log('get-data: requesting data');
        return fetch(url, {})
        .then(response => {
            cachedData = response.json();
            return cachedData;
        });
    } else {
        console.log('get-data: returning cached data');
        return Promise.resolve(cachedData);
    }
};

export  { getServiceData, postServiceData };

Usage like below in another component

import { getServiceData, postServiceData } from './../Utils/Util';

constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
      datastore : []
    }
  }

componentDidMount = () => {  
    let posturl = 'yoururl'; 
    let getdataString = { name: "xys", date:"today"};  
    postServiceData(posturl, getdataString)
      .then(items => { 
        this.setState({ datastore: items }) 
      console.log(items);   
    });
  }

Answer 2

you can install superagent

npm install superagent --save

then for make post call to server

import request from "../../node_modules/superagent/superagent";

request
.post('http://localhost/userLogin')
.set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
.send({ username: "username", password: "password" })
.end(function(err, res){
console.log(res.text);
});  

Answer 3

Another recently popular packages is : axios

Install : npm install axios --save

Simple Promise based requests

---

axios.post('/user', {
    firstName: 'Fred',
    lastName: 'Flintstone'
  })
  .then(function (response) {
    console.log(response);
  })
  .catch(function (error) {
    console.log(error);
  });