Hello! Today, we're delving into Error Handling and Fetch States in React Functional Components. Our mission? To prepare ourselves for potential errors during API calls, much like a postman prepares for potential issues during mail delivery.

API calls can fail due to network errors such as internet disconnections or server downtime, or HTTP status errors, which include the 400 series for client-side errors and the 500 series for server-side errors.

Let's add error handling to our Fetch API call and manage state changes using the useState hook. Providing a fallback UI for error scenarios can greatly enhance the user experience:

A retry mechanism helps to recover from temporary failures. The principle is simple: if a request fails, try it again. Here's our React component enhanced with a retry mechanism: