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I have a Node/Express backend and I'm consuming the API with a React Client. I want to be able to set the authorization header after a user is signed up. This ensures that subsequent requests are sent with the authorization header.

I can see how it's done in Axios here and how to retrieve the authorization header in Fetch here

Is it possible to do this with Fetch API and how?

Thank you in advance.

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As far as I know, there's no way to use default options/headers with fetch. You can use this third party library to get it to work, or set up some default options that you then use with every request:

// defaultOptions.js
const defaultOptions = {
  headers: {
    'Authorization': getTokenFromStore(),
  },
};

export default defaultOptions;

Then use the default options like:

import defaultOptions from './defaultOptions';

// With default options:
fetch('/auth', defaultOptions);

// With additional (non-default) options:
fetch('/auth', { ...defaultOptions, body: JSON.stringify(additionalData) });