How to abort API requests in JavaScript

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Did you know that you can abort an API request in JavaScript? By aborting, I mean canceling a request before it is completed (before you get a response or before the request gets to the server). By Dillion Megida.

There are many reasons why you may want to do this. One of them is to prevent a request from being sent to the server if the user has already navigated away from the page the request was made.

The article the focuses on:

  • The AbortController interface
  • Aborting API requests in fetch
  • Aborting API requests in axios

Even for new methods of making API requests, by accepting a signal property in their request options object, you can abort requests using the abort() method. Good read!

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