Using Axios with React Native to manage API requests

Axios is a popular third-party HTTP client used in React Native applications for managing API requests, offering features like request/response interception, automatic JSON transformation, and support for the Promise API, making it suitable for complex networking tasks. While the built-in Fetch API in React Native suffices for simple requests, Axios is favored by many developers for its isomorphic nature, allowing the same codebase to be used across different environments, and its ability to handle more sophisticated networking needs. This guide provides an overview of how to use Axios for CRUD operations in a React Native application, discusses error handling, and emphasizes the importance of managing application state throughout the request-response cycle to improve user experience. Additionally, it highlights the trade-offs of using third-party libraries, such as increased bundle size and potential security risks, while also showcasing Axios' flexibility in making concurrent requests, aborting requests, and creating custom Axios instances.