Next JS: A Framework for Data Fetching

React doesn't have an opinion on how you get the data in the first place. There's lots of different ways to do it in react. Probably the most popular way is a library called Axios, which has tons of features. The new way the future is using an API called fetch, the fetch API,. But more people that I found are still using Axios because it still is a little more feature rich and works in the weirdest of places.