Node.js Tutorial: How to Easily Convert Axios Requests to cURL Commands with axios-curlirize in Node.js and the Browser
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Axios is a popular JavaScript library used for making HTTP requests from a web page or Node.js application. When developing APIs, it can be helpful to convert an Axios request to a cURL command for debugging or testing purposes. Fortunately, the axios-curlirize
npm package makes it easy to do just that. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use axios-curlirize
to convert Axios requests to cURL commands.
Prerequisites
Before we get started, make sure you have the following installed:
Node.js (version 12 or higher)
NPM (Node Package Manager)
Installing axios-curlirize
To use axios-curlirize
, you need to install it using NPM. Open your terminal and run the following command:
npm install axios-curlirize
Using axios-curlirize
Once you have axios-curlirize
installed, you can start using it to convert Axios requests to cURL commands. Here's an example:
const axios = require('axios');
const axiosCurlirize = require('axios-curlirize');
axiosCurlirize(axios);
axios.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
.then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
})
.catch(error => {
console.error(error);
});
In this example, we import axios
and axios-curlirize
. We then call axiosCurlirize
with the axios
instance as an argument to enable cURL logging for Axios requests. After that, we make a GET request to https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
using Axios.
When you run this code, you'll see the cURL command for the Axios request logged to the console, along with the response data:
$ node app.js
$ curl 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1' -H 'User-Agent: axios/0.21.1' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*' -H 'Host: jsonplaceholder.typicode.com' -H 'Connection: keep-alive'
{ userId: 1,
id: 1,
title: 'sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit',
body: 'quia et suscipit\nsuscipit recusandae consequuntur expedita et cum\nreprehenderit molestiae ut ut quas totam\nnostrum rerum est autem sunt rem eveniet architecto'
}
And that's it! You can now use axios-curlirize
to convert your Axios requests to cURL commands for debugging or testing purposes. It's a simple and effective tool to have in your developer toolkit.