Getting Started
Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
What is Axios?
Axios is a promise-based HTTP Client for node.js
and the browser. It is isomorphic (= it can run in the browser and nodejs with the same codebase). On the server-side it uses the native node.js http
module, while on the client (browser) it uses XMLHttpRequests.
Features
- Make XMLHttpRequests from the browser
- Make http requests from node.js
- Supports the Promise API
- Intercept request and response
- Transform request and response data
- Cancel requests
- Timeouts
- Query parameters serialization with support for nested entries
- Automatic request body serialization to:
- JSON (
application/json
) - Multipart / FormData (
multipart/form-data
) - URL encoded form (
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
)
- JSON (
- Posting HTML forms as JSON
- Automatic JSON data handling in response
- Progress capturing for browsers and node.js with extra info (speed rate, remaining time)
- Setting bandwidth limits for node.js
- Compatible with spec-compliant FormData and Blob (including
node.js
) - Client side support for protecting against XSRF
Installing
Using npm:
$ npm install axios
Using bower:
$ bower install axios
Using yarn:
$ yarn add axios
Using jsDelivr CDN:
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/axios/dist/axios.min.js"></script>
Using unpkg CDN:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/axios/dist/axios.min.js"></script>
Prebuilt CommonJS modules for direct importing with require (if your module bundler failed to resolve them automatically)
const axios = require('axios/dist/browser/axios.cjs'); // browser
const axios = require('axios/dist/node/axios.cjs'); // node