Axios - HTTP POST Request Examples
Below is a quick set of examples to show how to send HTTP POST requests to an API using the axios
HTTP client which is available on npm.
Other HTTP examples available:
- Axios: GET, PUT, DELETE
- Fetch: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
- React + Axios: GET POST, PUT, DELETE
- React + Fetch: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
- Vue + Axios: GET, POST
- Vue + Fetch: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
- Angular: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
- Blazor WebAssembly: GET, POST
Installing axios from npm
With the npm CLI: npm install axios
With the yarn CLI: yarn add axios
Simple POST request with a JSON body using axios
This sends an HTTP POST request to the Reqres api which is a fake online REST api used for testing, it includes a generic /api/<resource>
route that supports POST
requests to any <resource>
and responds with the contents of the post body and a dynamic id property. This example sends an article
object to the /api/articles
route and then writes the id from the response to the #post-request .article-id
element so it's displayed on the page.
// Simple POST request with a JSON body using axios
const element = document.querySelector('#post-request .article-id');
const article = { title: 'Axios POST Request Example' };
axios.post('https://reqres.in/api/articles', article)
.then(response => element.innerHTML = response.data.id);
Example Axios POST request at https://stackblitz.com/edit/axios-http-post-request-examples?file=post-request.js
POST request using axios with async/await
This sends the same POST request with axios, but this version uses an async
function and the await
javascript expression to wait for the promises to return (instead of using the promise then()
method as above).
(async () => {
// POST request using axios with async/await
const element = document.querySelector('#post-request-async-await .article-id');
const article = { title: 'Axios POST Request Example' };
const response = await axios.post('https://reqres.in/api/articles', article);
element.innerHTML = response.data.id;
})();
Example Axios POST request at https://stackblitz.com/edit/axios-http-post-request-examples?file=post-request-async-await.js
POST request using axios with error handling
This sends a POST request with axios to an invalid url on the api then writes the error message to the parent of the #post-request-error-handling .article-id
element and logs the error to the console.
// POST request using axios with error handling
const element = document.querySelector('#post-request-error-handling .article-id');
const article = { title: 'Axios POST Request Example' };
axios.post('https://reqres.in/invalid-url', article)
.then(response => element.innerHTML = response.data.id )
.catch(error => {
element.parentElement.innerHTML = `Error: ${error.message}`;
console.error('There was an error!', error);
});
Example Axios POST request at https://stackblitz.com/edit/axios-http-post-request-examples?file=post-request-error-handling.js
POST request using axios with set HTTP headers
This sends the same POST request again using axios with a couple of headers set, the HTTP Authorization
header and a custom header My-Custom-Header
.
// POST request using axios with set headers
const element = document.querySelector('#post-request-set-headers .article-id');
const article = { title: 'Axios POST Request Example' };
const headers = {
'Authorization': 'Bearer my-token',
'My-Custom-Header': 'foobar'
};
axios.post('https://reqres.in/api/articles', article, { headers })
.then(response => element.innerHTML = response.data.id);
Example Axios POST request at https://stackblitz.com/edit/axios-http-post-request-examples?file=post-request-set-headers.js
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