RN "TypeError: Network request failed" - production - random - react-native

Question

I know some questions about the subject has been opened here and there, but my issue is different :
all the other ones appear in dev mode, in my case it's in production,
a very big percentage of requests pass, a few of them is TypeError: Network request failed - but sometimes for critical requests
it's random, not always the same request. Sometimes it passes, sometimes not.
it appears to three on my projects, one is on AWS the other one on Clever-Cloud, both are projects between 1000 and 5000 users, servers are quite too big for what they do - I think I removed the risk of a server fault. Even if... I can reproduce locally when I don't start the api locally. So it's like the api is not responding, but as I said, I don't think so.
I have no clue where to dig anymore...
I can give you my API.js service file, maybe you'll find what's wrong ?
import URI from 'urijs';
import { Platform } from 'react-native';
import NetInfo from '#react-native-community/netinfo';
import { getUserToken, wipeData } from '../utils/data';
import { SCHEME, MW_API_HOST } from '../config';
import deviceInfoModule from 'react-native-device-info';
import { capture } from '../utils/sentry';
const unauthorisedHandler = (navigation) => {
wipeData();
navigation.reset({ index: 0, routes: [{ name: 'Auth' }] });
};
const checkNetwork = async (test = false) => {
const isConnected = await NetInfo.fetch().then((state) => state.isConnected);
if (!isConnected || test) {
await new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, 1500));
return false;
}
return true;
};
class ApiService {
host = MW_API_HOST;
scheme = SCHEME;
getUrl = (path, query) => {
return new URI().host(this.host).scheme(this.scheme).path(path).setSearch(query).toString();
};
execute = async ({ method = 'GET', path = '', query = {}, headers = {}, body = null }) => {
try {
const config = {
method,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
Accept: 'application/json',
appversion: deviceInfoModule.getBuildNumber(),
appdevice: Platform.OS,
currentroute: this.navigation?.getCurrentRoute?.()?.name,
...headers,
},
body: body ? JSON.stringify(body) : null,
};
const url = this.getUrl(path, query);
console.log('url: ', url);
const canFetch = await checkNetwork();
if (!canFetch) return;
let response;
// To try to avoid mysterious `TypeError: Network request failed` error
// that throws an error directly
// we try catch and try one more time.
try {
response = await fetch(url, config);
} catch (e) {
if (e?.toString().includes('Network request failed')) {
// try again
await new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, 250));
console.log('try again because Network request failed');
response = await fetch(url, config);
} else {
throw e;
}
}
if (!response.ok) {
if (response.status === 401) {
const token = await getUserToken();
if (token) unauthorisedHandler(API.navigation);
return response;
}
}
if (response.json) return await response.json();
return response;
} catch (e) {
capture(e, { extra: { method, path, query, headers, body } });
return { ok: false, error: "Sorry, an error occured, technical team has been warned." };
}
};
executeWithToken = async ({ method = 'GET', path = '', query = {}, headers = {}, body = null }) => {
const token = await getUserToken();
if (token) headers.Authorization = token;
return this.execute({ method, path, query, headers, body });
};
get = async (args) => this.executeWithToken({ method: 'GET', ...args });
post = async (args) => this.executeWithToken({ method: 'POST', ...args });
put = async (args) => this.executeWithToken({ method: 'PUT', ...args });
delete = async (args) => this.executeWithToken({ method: 'DELETE', ...args });
}
const API = new ApiService();
export default API;

Answer 1

Talking with experts here and there, it seems that it's normal : internet network is not 100% reliable, so sometimes, request fail, for a reason that we can't anticipate (tunnel, whatever).
I ended up using fetch-retry and I still have a few of those, but much less !