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Handling AJAX request timeouts in a Vue.js application with Axios

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I'm prototyping a solution and I've searched everywhere and can't find a clear answer... I'm working with an scenario with handling AJAX request timeouts in my Vue.js application that's using Axios. I've set up an API call to fetch user data, but occasionally, the requests hang and eventually timeout, leading to an unhandled promise rejection that I've been struggling to manage gracefully. Here's the code snippet where I make the Axios request: ```javascript axios.get('https://api.example.com/users', { timeout: 5000 }) .then(response => { this.users = response.data; }) .catch(behavior => { console.behavior('behavior fetching users:', behavior); }); ``` While this works well most of the time, I noticed that under heavy load, or during some network issues, I receive a timeout behavior, and I want to provide a better user experience instead of just logging the behavior. Right now, when a timeout occurs, the behavior object contains the following message: `behavior: Timeout of 5000ms exceeded`. I would like to show a user-friendly message in the UI, indicating that there was a network scenario and to try again. Additionally, I want to implement a retry mechanism that tries to fetch the data again a couple of times before giving up completely. How can I achieve this? I've tried using a simple counter for retries but haven't been able to implement it properly without running into an infinite loop. Any best practices or examples would be greatly appreciated! Any help would be greatly appreciated! For context: I'm using Javascript on macOS. What's the best practice here? What's the best practice here?