[reactjs] How to make a rest post call from ReactJS code?

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.

I think this way also a normal way. But sorry, I can't describe in English ((

    submitHandler = e => {_x000D_
    e.preventDefault()_x000D_
    console.log(this.state)_x000D_
    fetch('http://localhost:5000/questions',{_x000D_
        method: 'POST',_x000D_
        headers: {_x000D_
            Accept: 'application/json',_x000D_
                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',_x000D_
        },_x000D_
        body: JSON.stringify(this.state)_x000D_
    }).then(response => {_x000D_
            console.log(response)_x000D_
        })_x000D_
        .catch(error =>{_x000D_
            console.log(error)_x000D_
        })_x000D_
    _x000D_
}

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) })

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);
});  

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);   
    });
  }

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) {
           ...
        }
    }
    ...
}

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 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.

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(…)

Straight from the React docs:

fetch('https://mywebsite.com/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.)