Vue Communicates with the Internet Chapter 14Sending basic AJAX requests with Axios
Axios is the recommended library for Vue for making HTTP requests. It's a very simple
library, but it has some built-in features that help you in carrying out common operations.
It implements a REST pattern for making requests with HTTP verbs and can also deal with
concurrency (spawning multiple requests at the same time) in a function call. You can find
more information at https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you don't need any particular knowledge of Vue. We will use Axios, which
itself uses JavaScript promises. If you have never heard of promises, you can have a primer
at https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/primers/
promises.
How to do it...
You will build a simple application that gives you a wise piece of advice every time you
visit the web page.
The first thing you will need is to install Axios in your application. If you are using npm,
you can just issue the following command:
npm install axiosIf you are working on a single page, you can import the following file from CDN,
at https://unpkg.com/axios/dist/axios.js.
Unfortunately, the advise slip service we will use will not work with
JSFiddle because while the service runs on HTTP, JSFiddle is on HTTPS
and your browser will most likely complain. You can run this recipe on a
local HTML file.Our HTML looks like this:
<div id="app">
<h2>Advice of the day</h2>
<p>{{advice}}</p>
</div>