Basic auth with axios — NodeJS & browser

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Axios, like many other popular HTTP clients, has built-in support for basic auth. However, very often in code reviews, and while browsing stack overflow answers I run into implementations similar to this:

Formatting and base64 encoding username & password

While there is nothing wrong with the code itself, there is a simpler way to achieve the same thing.

Using axios api for a basic auth

As you can see, the axios provides an elegant way to invoke APIs protected with basic auth, hiding away the base64 encoding and string concatenation.

If you liked this short post, check out my other axios related writings.

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