How to make an Axios POST request

John on September 20, 2021

Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for node.js which can be deployed both frontend and backend.

To perform a POST request using Axios and thus send data to a particular end-point use the axios.post() function.

Basic POST Request

Let's import the axios package and perform a basic POST request to an end-point, which doesn't send data.

const axios = require('axios');

const res = await axios.post('https://example.com/api');

Send Data with Axios Post Request

To send data in a POST request with Axios, pass it as the second argument of the axio.post() function. In the example below, we'll send an object then catch the response with .then().

const axios = require('axios')

axios.post('https://example.com/api', {
   Name: 'John',
   LastName: 'Smith'
 })
 .then(function (response) {
   console.log(response);
 });