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Error boundary + Suspense (asynchronous error handling)

Error boundary + Suspense (asynchronous error handling)

Welcome to this session on Handling Asynchronous Errors in React. Today, we're going to dive into a powerful pattern that combines two key React features, Error Boundaries and Suspense. The aim is to understand how you can gracefully manage errors that occur during asynchronous operations like fetching data from an API. You will learn how to show a loading state while data is being fetched, display the data on success, and most importantly, catch any network or API errors and show a user-friendly error message instead of crashing your entire application. Let's start where we left off in the previous session where we built a classic error boundary. Ok, now let's create the component where we'll actually be displaying our list of courses. We're going to make a new file, called courseList.jsx, inside our source slash components directory. This is where we'll put the logic to fetch the course data and render it to the screen. Moving to courseList.jsx. Now it is time to create a new…

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