Using a REST API in react

By DEV Community - 2020-12-30

Description

WHAT IS AN API An API stands for an "Application Programming Interface". It allows communi... Tagged with webdev, react, html, javascript.

Summary

WHAT IS AN API An API stands for an "Application Programming Interface".
As the name implies, it gets the data directly from the API.
This method is used to eradicate pieces of information or data that are not needed.
In the fetchData function, we set the state to the response of every joke we get from the API setJokes([res.data.joke]);.In the return statement we passed in the fetchData function to a button, for any time we click the button it loads new jokes .

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Backend (0.19)
Database (0.1)

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