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saransh kataria • • Edited

I would rather use a polyfill than use axios, but that is again a personal preference. If there are other features that axios provides (specific to the use case), I might go for it. You could just use the first approach of a boolean flag as well.

But if it is just cancellation support for IE, you could take a look at the example repo

Install:

  • promise-polyfill
  • unfetch
  • abortcontroller-polyfill

Add the following:

import 'promise-polyfill/src/polyfill';
import 'unfetch/polyfill';
import 'abortcontroller-polyfill';
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Hammed Oyedele •

There are other features like request and response interceptors that axios provides by the way.

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saransh kataria •

As I mentioned, if there are other features that you are using, go for it. But most people are not using those features, thus the recommendation.