How to add Headers to Axios Requests

On the web, headers are used to pass information about the request and response.

Therefore, it can be very useful to know how to add your own headers to requests that you make using the popular Axios HTTP library.

In this post, we'll learn how to add headers to your Axios requests.

How to add headers to your Axios requests

Let's start with a basic GET request:

	const response = await axios.get("https://sabe.io/");

console.log(response.data);

Now, let's add an authorization header to our request by utilizing the options object as our second parameter.

	const options = {
    headers: {
        Authorization: "Bearer <your-token>"
    }
};

const response = await axios.get("https://sabe.io/", options);

console.log(response.data);

Now this request should have an authorization header on it.

Let's look at how we can pass headers using POST instead of GET:

	const payload = {
    email: " <your-email>",
    password: "<your-password>"
};

const options = {
    headers: {
        Authorization: "Bearer <your-token>"
    }
};

const response = await axios.post("https://sabe.io/", payload, options);

console.log(response.data);

In this case, we have to pass the options as the third parameter because the second one is being used for the payload.

Keep in mind that this will also work with PUT and DELETE.