Standard http client for ionic (Angular)

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Hello,

We are developing an ionic (Angular) application for iOS and android which consumes data from a REST api. We have seen that there are different ways to make http calls, so I would like to ask which http client is the one commonly used in production applications? Is it better to use the Angular client or the capacitor client?

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I normally use the HttpClient on Web and the Capacitor HTTP Plugin on native devices :blush: That coupd be archieved via an Interceptor for example, see: GitHub - sean-perkins/ngx-capacitor-http: Zero-config drop in for native HTTP calls with Angular Capacitor applications.

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Thank you for your response. Why do you use both clients? Is there any problem with using angular client on ios and andorid?

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Not a “problem”, i use it for two reasons:

  1. CORS - with the native plugin you don’t need to worry about CORS and don’t have to add the localhost origins to allowed origins
  2. Performance - In quite huge apps that do very much, moving the http requests to the native layer, can help to improve the performance of the webview
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