I can't for the life of me figure this out, it seems like it should be straight forward but it's just not clicking.
I have an ES6 app that I created using create-react-app. I've got all the templates and layouts set up for the project and came to trying to pull in data from an API that I want to sit inside the app - like a botched MVC where React handles the views and I run the models and controllers in PHP.
So I have a function in one of my components that I want to fetch some data. I use the fetch() function (I know this isn't yet compatible with a number of browsers but that's a problem for another day) to fetch a relative path from the component to the model I want to load, however the fetch function treats my path as a call to the base URL followed by the request. So with the site running on localhost:3000, I run the following code in my getData() function...
let test = fetch('../models/overall-stats.php').then(function(response) {
console.log(response);
return response;
});
...the URL that fetch hits is then http://localhost:3000/models/overall-stats.php which simply resolves back to the index.html file and loads the app, rather than the PHP file I'm requesting.
If I need to hit that PHP file to get my data, am I wrong in using fetch? Or am I just using it incorrectly? If I shouldn't be using fetch what's a better approach to this problem I'm having?
When I run this on an apache server (after building and deploying) I can get the fetches to work fine (apache recognizes the structure of the URL and hits it as I am expecting) and I hit the file no issues, but I need to be able to work in a local development environment and have the same functionality. The app will end up being deployed live on an apache server.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
