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Mikhail Sakhniuk
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Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.
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Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
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Using Axios

In this section, we will explore one of the most popular libraries for working with the server, called Axios. This library is similar to the Fetch API but also provides additional features that make it a powerful tool for handling requests.

Let’s take our previous project and make some changes to it. First, let’s install Axios as a dependency:

npm install axios

One of Axios’s features is the ability to create instances with specific configurations, such as headers, base URLs, interceptors, and more. This allows us to have a preconfigured instance tailored to our needs, reducing code repetition and making it more scalable.

Let’s create an API class that encapsulates all the necessary logic for working with the server:

class API {
  private apiInstance: AxiosInstance;
  constructor() {
    this.apiInstance = axios.create({
      baseURL: "https://api.github.com",
    });
    this.apiInstance.interceptors.request...
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Mikhail Sakhniuk

Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.
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Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
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