Introduction

The code in this repository contains 2 approaches to fetch the JSON data from GitHub users API and render that data inside a React component.

Approach 1

• Fetch, a Web API available in browsers to fetch network resources.

Approach 2

• Axios, a Promise based npm library for browser and node.js.

How to Run

To run this project on your machine, open your terminal and follow these steps to get the app running.

• Fork this repository by clicking on the Fork button in your GitHub account

• Clone the repo on your machine. Use your own github username in the placeholder below.

  git clone git@github.com:<your-github-username>/access-external-api-react.git

• Install dependencies

  yarn install

• Start the app

  yarn start

• Go to your src/App.js. Inside useEffect() hook, there are 2 functions getGitHubUserWithFetch() and getGiHubUserWithAxios(). Feel free to play with any of these functions, they use fetch() and axios to get data from the network and render into the React component.