I am creating a react app with full crud functionality. It allows users to create job postings and i wanted to click on a specific job to view more details.
I am having trouble as everytime i try to click a "job" it says that ID is undefined specifically:
show function called with id: undefined
SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
My app currently displays the list of all jobs and creates.
I already confirmed the following:
Made sure the backend server is running and listening on port 3001.
Verified that the endpoint i am trying to fetch actually exists. Tried on postman
Made sure that my frontend code is using the correct URL to make requests to the backend.
I am using hooks and functions.
DetailsPage.js
import styles from './DetailsPage.module.css';
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import jobsService from '../../utils/jobsService';
export default function DetailPage(props) {
const [job, setJob] = useState({});
const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(true);
const { id } = props.match?.params || {};
useEffect(() => {
const fetchData = async () => {
try {
const { data } = await jobsService.show(id);
setJob(data);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
} finally {
setIsLoading(false);
}
};
fetchData();
}, [id]);
return (
<>
{isLoading ? (
<div>Loading...</div>
) : (
<div className={styles.list}>
<div className={styles.Grid}>
<h3>{job.title}</h3>
<p>{job.description}</p>
</div>
</div>
)}
</>
);
}
jobsService.js
async function getAll(){
const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3001/api/jobs')
const data = await response.json()
return data
}
async function create(item) {
try {
const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3001/api/jobs/create', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify(item)
});
return await response.json();
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}
}
async function show(id) {
console.log("show function called with id:", id);
return fetch(`http://localhost:3001/api/jobs/${id}`, {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Content-type': 'application/json',
},
})
.then(res => res.json());
}
export default {
getAll,
create,
show,
}
destruct id form empty object ?
instead this
const { id } = props.match?.params || {};
test this
const { id } = props.match?.params || {id: 0};
or use ternary operator in function calling
or
async function show(id = 0) {
console.log("show function called with id:", id);
return fetch(`http://localhost:3001/api/jobs/${id}`, {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Content-type': 'application/json',
},
})
.then(res => res.json());
}
Beginner at React (and JS)...
I am trying to update text on the screen after my API helper function has completed a call. Instead, it returns empty. I have verified with the console that the data is being received. I followed the ComponentDidMount method from other similar questions but am still having no success. My code also seems to make multiple API calls, even though my intent is to only make one; I have to wonder if the issue stems from that.
Helper function:
export function apiHelper(url, data = {}, method = 'POST') {
return fetch(url, { // Return promise
method: method,
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify(data)
})
.then(res => res.json())
.then((result) => {
console.log(result);
return result;
}, (error) => {
error = error;
})
}
React Component that renders incorrectly after data is received:
class Headache extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
apiResponse: null,
};
}
componentDidMount() {
apiHelper(URLredacted,JSONredacted)
.then(response => {
this.setState({
apiResponse: response
});
console.log("state set.",response)
});
}
render() {
const jsonResponse = JSON.stringify(this.props.apiResponse)
return (
<div>
<img className="logoheader" src = {logo}/>
<ColoredLine color="grey"/>
<p>{jsonResponse}</p>
</div>
);
}
}
export function apiHelper(url, data = {}, method = 'POST') {
return fetch(url, { // Return promise
method: method,
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify(data)
})
.then(res => res.json())
.catch(err=>console.log(err))
}
second page:
class Headache extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
apiResponse: null,
};
}
componentDidMount() {
apiHelper(URLredacted,JSONredacted)
.then(response => {
this.setState({
apiResponse: response
});
console.log("state set.",response)
});
}
render() {
const jsonResponse = JSON.stringify(this.props.apiResponse)
return (
<div>
<img className="logoheader" src = {logo}/>
<ColoredLine color="grey"/>
<p>{jsonResponse && ""}</p>
</div>
);
}
}
if these code dont work you will be need asyn function because you need to wait to fetch data.
I have two components, Client and App, and a fetch function. App is the child component of Client. I want to update Client's state using the return value from the method App calls. However, Client's state response is undefined after the fetch. I'm not sure why this code does not work.
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import './App.css';
function post(user, token, data){
console.log('fetching...')
fetch(`/project`, {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Basic '+ btoa(user+':'+token),
},
body: JSON.stringify(data)
}).then(r => {
if (!r.ok)
throw Error(r.status);
r.json().then(r => {return(r)});
}).catch(error => {throw Error(error)})
}
class Client extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
user: '',
token: '111',
project: {'project':'demo'},
response: {},
};
this.updateState = this.updateState.bind(this);
};
updateState(){
const { user, token, project } = this.state;
post(user, token, project).then(text => this.setState({ response: text
}));
}
render() {
return (
<App updateState={this.updateState}/>
)
}
}
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div className="App">
<button onClick={ () => {
this.props.updateState()} }>Fetch Project</button>
</div>
);
}
}
EDIT: I changed my post() to this and it works :)
async function post(user, token, data){
console.log('fetching...')
const response = await fetch(`/project`, {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Basic '+ btoa(user+':'+token),
},
body: JSON.stringify(data)
}).catch(error => {throw Error(error)});
if(!response.ok)
throw Error(response.status);
const obj = await response.json();
return(obj);
}
If you are working with promises, you can do something like this.
import React, { Component } from "react";
async function post() {
// fetch //
return await fetch("https://hipsum.co/api/?type=hipster-centric");
}
class Client extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
response: "12"
};
this.updateState = this.updateState.bind(this);
}
async updateState(res) {
const text = await res().then(res => res.text());
this.setState({ response: text });
}
render() {
return (
<>
{this.state.response}
<App updateState={this.updateState} />
</>
);
}
}
class App extends Component {
render() {
return (
<div>
<button
onClick={() => {
this.props.updateState(post);
}}
>
Fetch
</button>
</div>
);
}
}
export default Client;
sandbox
It will be nice to know all the code for the fetch function but I think the problem is mostly here:
this.props.updateState(post())
That call is synchronous and the fetching process isn't. You need a better approach with await or promises or a callback.
I am getting a token to access an API endpoint and I want to send this token to my server-side app (expressJS) to retreive the data.
I have the following for my react app:
export default class Account extends React.Component {
constructor() {
super();
this.state = {
token: null,
response: {
}
};
this.getCurrentlyPlaying = this.getCurrentlyPlaying.bind(this);
}
componentDidMount() {
// Set token
let _token = hash.access_token;
if (_token) {
this.setState({
token: _token
});
const cookies = new Cookies();
cookies.set('token', _token, { path: '/' });
console.log(cookies.get('token'));
this.getCurrentlyPlaying(_token);
}
}
getCurrentlyPlaying() {
fetch(`http://localhost:3001/account`)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(data => {
this.setState ({
response: data
})
console.log(data);
});
}
render() {
if (this.state.response[0].is_playing === true) {
return (
<p> Something is playing</p>
);
}
else {
return (
<p> Nothing is playing</p>
);
}
}
}
In my express app, I have the cookie being gotten but I'm not sure if it actually is getting the cookie created by the react app:
router.get('/account', (req, res) => {
const config = {
headers: {
'Authorization': `Bearer ${req.session.token}`
}
};
fetch(`${CONFIG.spotifyUrl}/me/player/currently-playing `, config)
.then(html => html.json())
.then(json => {
res.json(json);
});
});
module.exports = router;
Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong please?
To parse cookies in backend with express, a good choice is to use the https://github.com/expressjs/cookie-parser middleware.
Provided you are using setup something similar to below
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
app.use(cookieParser());
Every Request object on server will have cookies information in the req.cookies property. So in your case it should be req.cookies.token
I am new to ReactJS and UI and I wanted to know how to make a simple REST based POST call from ReactJS code.
If there is any example present it would be really helpful.
Straight from the React Native docs:
fetch('https://mywebsite.example/endpoint/', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
firstParam: 'yourValue',
secondParam: 'yourOtherValue',
})
})
(This is posting JSON, but you could also do, for example, multipart-form.)
Also see docs for ReactJS AJAX FAQs if not using React Native.
React doesn't really have an opinion about how you make REST calls. Basically you can choose whatever kind of AJAX library you like for this task.
The easiest way with plain old JavaScript is probably something like this:
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('POST', '/my/url', true);
request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=UTF-8');
request.send(data);
In modern browsers you can also use fetch.
If you have more components that make REST calls it might make sense to put this kind of logic in a class that can be used across the components. E.g. RESTClient.post(…)
Another recently popular packages is : axios
Install : npm install axios --save
Simple Promise based requests
axios.post('/user', {
firstName: 'Fred',
lastName: 'Flintstone'
})
.then(function (response) {
console.log(response);
})
.catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
you can install superagent
npm install superagent --save
then for make post call to server
import request from "../../node_modules/superagent/superagent";
request
.post('http://localhost/userLogin')
.set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
.send({ username: "username", password: "password" })
.end(function(err, res){
console.log(res.text);
});
As of 2018 and beyond, you have a more modern option which is to incorporate async/await in your ReactJS application. A promise-based HTTP client library such as axios can be used. The sample code is given below:
import axios from 'axios';
...
class Login extends Component {
constructor(props, context) {
super(props, context);
this.onLogin = this.onLogin.bind(this);
...
}
async onLogin() {
const { email, password } = this.state;
try {
const response = await axios.post('/login', { email, password });
console.log(response);
} catch (err) {
...
}
}
...
}
I think this way also a normal way. But sorry, I can't describe in English ((
submitHandler = e => {
e.preventDefault()
console.log(this.state)
fetch('http://localhost:5000/questions',{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify(this.state)
}).then(response => {
console.log(response)
})
.catch(error =>{
console.log(error)
})
}
https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/fetch-api/fetch-post.html
fetch('url/questions',{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify(this.state)
}).then(response => {
console.log(response)
})
.catch(error =>{
console.log(error)
})
Here is a the list of ajax libraries comparison based on the features and support.
I prefer to use fetch for only client side development or isomorphic-fetch for using in both client side and server side development.
For more information on isomorphic-fetch vs fetch
Here is a util function modified (another post on stack) for get and post both. Make Util.js file.
let cachedData = null;
let cachedPostData = null;
const postServiceData = (url, params) => {
console.log('cache status' + cachedPostData );
if (cachedPostData === null) {
console.log('post-data: requesting data');
return fetch(url, {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify(params)
})
.then(response => {
cachedPostData = response.json();
return cachedPostData;
});
} else {
console.log('post-data: returning cachedPostData data');
return Promise.resolve(cachedPostData);
}
}
const getServiceData = (url) => {
console.log('cache status' + cachedData );
if (cachedData === null) {
console.log('get-data: requesting data');
return fetch(url, {})
.then(response => {
cachedData = response.json();
return cachedData;
});
} else {
console.log('get-data: returning cached data');
return Promise.resolve(cachedData);
}
};
export { getServiceData, postServiceData };
Usage like below in another component
import { getServiceData, postServiceData } from './../Utils/Util';
constructor(props) {
super(props)
this.state = {
datastore : []
}
}
componentDidMount = () => {
let posturl = 'yoururl';
let getdataString = { name: "xys", date:"today"};
postServiceData(posturl, getdataString)
.then(items => {
this.setState({ datastore: items })
console.log(items);
});
}
Here is the simple method to define and call post APIs in reactjs. Install axios using command npm install axios and call post req method wherever you want, it will return array that contains 100 elements.
// Define post_req() Method in authAction.js
import axios from 'axios';
const post_req = (data) => {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'
const header = {
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
"Content-Type: application/json"
}
axios({
method: 'post',
url: url,
data: data,
headers: header
});
.then((res)=>{resolve(res);})
.catch((err)=>{reject(err);})
})
}
// Calling post_req() Method in react component
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { post_req } from 'path of file authAction.js'
class MyReactComponent extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
myList:[]
};
}
componentDidMount() {
let data = {
.......
}
this.props.post_req(data)
.then((resp)=>{this.setState({myList:resp.data})})
.catch((err)=>{console.log('here is my err',err)})
}
render() {
return (
<div>
....
</div)
}
}
export default MyReactComponent;
import React ,{useState}from 'react';
import Axios from 'axios';
export default function Formlp()
{
const url ="";
const [state, setstate] = useState({
name:"",
iduser:""
})
function handel(e){
const newdata={...state}
newdata[e.target.id]=e.target.value
setstate(newdata);
}
function submit(e)
{
e.preventDefault();
// Axios.post(url,{name:state.name,iduser:state.iduser}).then( res=>{console.log(res)});
console.log(state)
}
return (
<div onSubmit={ (e)=> submit(e)}>
<input onChange={ (e)=>handel(e) } id="name" value={state.name} placeholder="name" type="text" >
<input onChange={ (e)=>handel(e) } id="iduser" value={state.iduser} placeholder="iduser" type="text" >
<button>submit</button>
</form>
</div>
);
}
Here is a quick example for v18+ while handling form data and creating a POST request with the data.
async function handleOrderSubmit(event){
event.preventDefault()
try{
const formData= {name: event.target.name.value, email: event.target.email.value, message: event.target.name.message}
const requestOptions = {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify(formData)
};
const response = await fetch('https://www.example.com/form', requestOptions);
const data = await response.json();
navigate("/form-response", { state: {data: data, status: true} })
}
catch(error){
navigate("/form-response", { state: {status: false} })
}
}
Note 1: Using status on '/form-response' page, you can customise what to show user. For true, you can show a different section and for false a different one.
Note 2: If the status is successful, you can access data on the next page also and customise it according to user information.
Note 3: event.preventDefault() is important to avoid page reloading.
Here is an example: https://jsfiddle.net/69z2wepo/9888/
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '/some/url',
data: data
})
.done(function(result) {
this.clearForm();
this.setState({result:result});
}.bind(this)
.fail(function(jqXhr) {
console.log('failed to register');
});
It used jquery.ajax method but you can easily replace it with AJAX based libs like axios, superagent or fetch.