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JavaScript Fetching Data with the Fetch API

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

[SOLVED] Endpoint returns empty Array

Hi Guil Hernandez :)

I wonder if the endpoint for the Trending API at Giphy is out of date? I've set up my fetching in the App.js component but simply returns an empty array! :-)

In the meantime I'll try and have some fun with some other endpoints.

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Sorry to bother you with this but I'm going to post a pointer as to why this went wrong.

I was getting an empty array because I mistyped the method name where the API call lives... so the method to use is componentDidMount (as mentioned in the video.... not coponentDidMount ;)

Hope this helps someone along the way! :)

Stephen Hanlon
Stephen Hanlon
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Stephen Hanlon
Stephen Hanlon
11,845 Points

Thanks for posting this! I was also getting an empty array then I noticed my spelling was componentDidount After correcting that I got the array with 25 objects.