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Published inOct 2023
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ISBN-139781803248448
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Olatunde Adedeji
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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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Fetching data using async/await syntax

There are three ways to write asynchronous codes in vanilla JavaScript: callbacks, promises, and async/await. In this section, we are going to focus on async /await and see how it can be used in React web applications. async/await is an improvement on promises.

The following snippet explains how async/await can be used to fetch data from an API using a promise-based approach:

import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';const App = () => {
    const [data, setData] = useState([]);
    const API_URL = "https://dummyjson.com/users";
    const fetchSpeakers = async () => {
        try {
            const response = await fetch(API_URL);
            const data = await response.json();
  ...
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Olatunde Adedeji

Olatunde Adedeji is a seasoned web developer with over 15 years of experience in developing dynamic and detail-oriented enterprise web applications. Along with his extensive experience in developing, maintaining and supporting mobile, web and enterprise applications in Python, Go and JavaScript, Olatunde has consistently delivered excellent services, as team lead, team member or in consultancy capacity. Olatunde is proficient in application design and solution blueprinting; including mastery of application development tools such as: Flask, Django, Gin, React, and NodeJS. When not weaving the web and playing chess, Olatunde spends time with his wife, Adedoyin and two daughters, Mitchelle and Mabel.
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