react-fetch-hook

react-fetch-hook

React hook for conveniently use Fetch API.

import React from "react";
import { useFetch } from "react-fetch-hook";

const Component = () => {
  const { isLoading, data } = useFetch("https://swapi.co/api/people/1");

  return isLoading ? (
    <div>Loading...</div>
  ) : (
    <UserProfile {...data} />
  );
};

useFetch accepts the same arguments as fetch function.

Installation

Install it with yarn:

yarn add react-fetch-hook

Or with npm:

npm i react-fetch-hook --save

API

useFetch

Create a hook wrapper for fetch call.

useFetch(
    path: RequestInfo,
    options?: {
        ...RequestOptions,
        formatter?: Response => Promise
        depends?: Array<boolean>
    },
    specialOptions?: {
        depends?: Array<boolean>
    }
): TUseFetchResult

where TUseFetchResult is:

{
    data: any,
    isLoading: boolean,
    error: any
}

Options:

RequestInfo, RequestOptions

RequestInfo, RequestOptions is fetch args.

formatter

formatter - optional formatter function. Default is response => response.json() formatter. Example:

const { isLoading, data } = useFetch("https://swapi.co/api/people/1", {
    formatter: (response) => response.text()
});

depends

The request will not be called until all elements of depends array be truthy. Example:

const {authToken} = useContext(authTokenContext);
const [someState, setSomeState] = useState(false);
const { isLoading, data } = useFetch("https://swapi.co/api/people/1", {
    depends: [!!authToken, someState] //don't call request, if haven't authToken and someState: false
});

If any element of depends changed, request will be re-call. For example, you can use react-use-trigger for re-call the request:

import {createTrigger, useTrigger} from "react-use-trigger";

const requestTrigger = createTrigger();

export const Subscriber = () => {  
    const requestTriggerValue = useTrigger(requestTrigger);
    
    const { isLoading, data } = useFetch("https://swapi.co/api/people/1", {
        depends: [requestTriggerValue]
    });
  
    return <div />;
}

export const Sender = () => { 
    return <button onClick={() => {
        requestTrigger() // re-call request
    }}>Send</button>
}