fetch for post request react code example

Example 1: react post request

componentDidMount() {
    // Simple POST request with a JSON body using fetch
    const requestOptions = {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
        body: JSON.stringify({ title: 'React POST Request Example' })
    };
    fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts', requestOptions)
        .then(response => response.json())
        .then(data => this.setState({ postId: data.id }));
}

Example 2: how to post data using fethch

fetch('url here', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}, // this line is important, if this content-type is not set it wont work
    body: 'foo=bar&blah=1'
});

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