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Daniel Bugl is a CEO, Software Architect and Full Stack Developer for his company TouchLay, developing a platform for interactive presentations. He also consults large multinational enterprises on the development and integration of React frontends with various backend systems, including the integration of legacy systems, and helps out with the setup and development of such projects. He has a bachelor's degree in business informatics and a master's degree in data science.
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Requesting resources with Hooks

In this section, we are going to learn how to request resources from a server, using Hooks. First, we are going to implement requests by only using the JavaScript fetch function, and the useEffect/useState Hooks. Then, we are going to learn how to request resources, using the axios library in combination with react-request-hook.

Setting up a dummy server

Before we can implement requests, we need to create a backend server. Since we are focusing on the user interface at the moment, we are going to set up a dummy server, which will allow us to test out requests. We are going to use the json-server tool to create a full Representational State Transfer (REST) API from a JSON file.

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