Making Your Fetch Requests Production-Ready with ffetch
September 22, 2025
Your app is ready. You have a backend that does some magical things and then exposes some data throught an API. You have a frontend that consumes that API and displays the data to the user. You are using the Fetch API to make requests to your backend, then process the response and update the UI. Simple and straightforward, right?
Well, in development, yes. Then, you deploy your app to production. And strange things start to happen. Most of the time all seems fine, but sometimes requests fail. The UI breaks. Users complain. You wonder what went wrong.
Source: Making Your Fetch Requests Production-Ready with ffetch
Fetch when introduced was a revolutionary API for the browser, simplifying a previously very kludgy way to implement client-server interaction from web applications.
But while simple in principle, putting into practise can come with some complexities and edge cases as explored here.
