Network error with axios and react native - react-native

Question

I have created an API endpoint using the Django python framework that I host externally. I can access my endpoint from a browser (mydomain.com/endpoint/) and verify that there is no error. The same is true when I run my test django server on locally on my development machine (localhost:8000/endpoint/). When I use my localhost as an endpoint, my json data comes through without issue. When I use my production domain, axios gets caught up with a network error, and there is not much context that it gives... from the debug console I get this:
Error: Network Error
at createError (createError.js:16)
at XMLHttpRequest.handleError (xhr.js:87)
at XMLHttpRequest.dispatchEvent (event-target.js:172)
at XMLHttpRequest.setReadyState (XMLHttpRequest.js:554)
at XMLHttpRequest.__didCompleteResponse (XMLHttpRequest.js:387)
at XMLHttpRequest.js:493
at RCTDeviceEventEmitter.emit (EventEmitter.js:181)
at MessageQueue.__callFunction (MessageQueue.js:353)
at MessageQueue.js:118
at MessageQueue.__guardSafe (MessageQueue.js:316)
This is my axios call in my react native component:
componentDidMount() {
axios.get('mydomain.com/get/').then(response => { // localhost:8000/get works
this.setState({foo:response.data});
}).catch(error => {
console.log(error);
});
}

Answer 1

If you are trying to call localhost on android simulator created with AVD, replacing localhost with 10.0.2.2 solved the issue for me.

Answer 2

It seems that unencrypted network requests are blocked by default in iOS, i.e. https will work, http will not.
From the docs:
By default, iOS will block any request that's not encrypted using SSL.
If you need to fetch from a cleartext URL (one that begins with http)
you will first need to add an App Transport Security exception.

Answer 3

change from localhost to your ip(192.168.43.49)
add http://
http://192.168.43.49:3000/user/

Answer 4

If you do not find your answer in other posts
In my case, I use Rails for the backend and I tried to make requests to http://localhost:3000 using Axios but every time I got Network Error as a response. Then I found out that I need to make a request to http://10.0.2.2:3000 in the case of the android simulator. For the iOS simulator, it works fine with http://localhost:3000.
Conclusion
use
http://10.0.2.2:3000
instead of
http://localhost:3000
update
might worth trying
adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000

Answer 5

For me, the issue was because my Remote URL was incorrect.
If you have the URL is a .env file, please crosscheck the naming and also ensure
that it's prefixed with REACT_APP_ as react might not be able to find it if named otherwise.
In the .env file Something like REACT_APP_BACKEND_API_URL=https://appurl/api
can be accessed as const { REACT_APP_BACKEND_API_URL } = process.env;

Answer 6

Try
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
Accept: "application/json"

Answer 7

If you are using android then open your command prompt and type ipconfig. Then get your ip address and replce it with localhost.
In my case, first I used http://localhost:8080/api/admin/1. Then I changed it to http://192.168.1.10:8080/api/admin/1. It worked for me.

Answer 8

Make sure to change localhost to your_ip_address which you can find by typing ipconfig in Command Prompt
Trying adding to your AndroidManifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

Answer 9

I was facing the same issue.
i looked deeper and my
endpoint url was not correct.
By giving axios right exact url, my api worked like charm.
Hope it may help anyone

Answer 10

Above mentioned answers only works if you are using localhost but if your code is hosted on a server and Axios throwing Network Error then you can solve this by adding one line.
const config = {
method: 'post',
url: `${BASE_URL}/login`,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'. <----- Add this line in your axios header
},
data : formData
};
axios(config).then((res)=> console.log(res))

Answer 11

I'm using apisauce dependancy & Adding header work for me with React Native Android.
Attach header with request like below:
import { create } from 'apisauce';
const api = create({
baseURL: {baseUrl},
headers: {
Accept: 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
});
export async function empLogin(data) {
try {
const response = api.post('Login', data);
return await response;
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
return [];
}
}

Answer 12

before:
axios.get("http://localhost:3456/apt")
.then(
response => {
alert(JSON.stringify(response));
....
}
)
.catch(function(error) {
alert(error.message);
console.warn(error.response._response);
});
I get Error "Network error" Failed to connect to the localhost after that, I make some steps to resolved the error.
Network Error related to axios resloved by the disabling the system firewall and access from the system IP Address like
axios.get("http://192.168.12.10:3456/apt")
.then(
response => {
alert(JSON.stringify(response));
....
}
)
.catch(function(error) {
alert(error.message);
console.warn(error.response._response);
});

Answer 13

For me adding "Accept" in headers resolved the problem:
Accept: 'application/json'