Nuxt - asyncData with multiple requests

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In my application I have a seller page which displays products listed by that seller. I am using asyncData to get all data required for the page (better for SEO)

asyncData ({params, app, error }) {

    return app.$axios.$get(`/seller/${params.username}`).then(async sellerRes => {

        let [categoriesRes, reviewsRes, productsRes] = await Promise.all([
            app.$axios.$get(`/categories`),
            app.$axios.$get(`/seller/${params.username}/reviews`),
            app.$axios.$get(`/seller/${params.username}/products`)
        ])

        return {
            seller: sellerRes.data,
            metaTitle: sellerRes.data.name,
            categories: categoriesRes.data,
            reviewsSummary: reviewsRes.summary,
            products: productsRes.data,
        }

    }).catch(e => {
        error({ statusCode: 404, message: 'Seller not found' })
    });
},

Although this method does the job intended, I can't help but think I am doing this wrong.

When navigating to the page the nuxt progress bar displays twice (which is odd).

I've been searching for a while now to try and find examples of multiple requests in asyncData but there's not much out there.

Maybe I'm not supposed to call multiple requests in asyncData?

3 Answers

Try to use async await, this is how you can run both requests in parallel:

async asyncData ({ $axios }) {
  const [categoriesRes, articlesRes] = await Promise.all([ 
    $axios.get('/fetch/categories'),
    $axios.get('/fetch/articles'),
  ])

  return {
    categories: categoriesRes.data,
    articles: articlesRes.data,
  }
},

Actually, you can, using the async await, which, looks a lot cleaner too.

<template>
  <div class="container">
    <h1>Request 1:</h1>
    <h1>{{ post.title }}</h1>
    <pre>{{ post.body }}</pre>
    <br />
    <h1>Request 2:</h1>
    <h1>{{ todos.title }}</h1>
    <pre>{{ todos.completed }}</pre>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import axios from "axios";

export default {
  async asyncData({ params }) {
    // We can use async/await ES6 feature
    const posts = await axios.get(
      `https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/${params.id}`
    );
    const todos = await axios.get(
      `https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/${params.id}`
    );
    return { post: posts.data, todos: todos.data };
  },
  head() {
    return {
      title: this.post.title
    };
  }
};
</script>

here is a working sandbox of it. (don't forget to add a value for :id route param)

Maybe so?

asyncData ({params, app, error }) {

    return app.$axios.$get(`/seller/${params.username}`).then(sellerRes => {
        return Promise.all([
            app.$axios.$get(`/categories`),
            app.$axios.$get(`/seller/${params.username}/reviews`),
            app.$axios.$get(`/seller/${params.username}/products`)
        ]).then((categoriesRes, reviewsRes, productsRes) => {
            return {
                seller: sellerRes.data,
                metaTitle: sellerRes.data.name,
                categories: categoriesRes.data,
                reviewsSummary: reviewsRes.summary,
                products: productsRes.data,
            }
        })
    }).catch(e => {
        error({ statusCode: 404, message: 'Seller not found' })
    });

},

This is a chain of promises. The first promise tries to get information about the seller, if the request is successful, then a new request is created that will wait for the rest of the information.

Method asyncData will wait for all promises to complete and return the result of the call.

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