How to call a JSON API with Node.js?

To call a JSON API with Node.js, we install axios.

To install it, we run

npm install axios

Then we use it by writing

const { data } = await axios.post(url, {
  auth: {
    username,
    password,
  },
});

to call axios.post to make a post request to the url with the 2nd argument as the JSON payload.

Then we get the response body from the data property of the object returned by the promise.