As a software engineer, it is important to have a forward thinking mindset when designing the architecture for a web application. Sooner or later standards will change or better frameworks will be released (or even worse, currently used frameworks bite the dust). If sound business logic is in place, these changes won’t rock the boat too hard when trying to get new code back to a usable state.

This concept is a key one to grasp and use when developing react web applications. For the sake of this article we will simply focus on how it pertains to requesting data from an API and using it within the application. We will be looking at:

• The basic setup for consuming APIs with react hooks
• Abstracting low level plumbing calls away
• Further abstracting where it makes sense

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