How to cancel Axios requests with cancel tokens

Axios is a tiny javascript library for making Ajax requests. Sometimes you want to cancel a request before it finishes, here is how to do it.

let cancel; // This variable will hold the function which actually cancels the request, we leave it empty for now
let CancelToken = axios.CancelToken; // Initiate the cancelToken

 axios.get('/some-route'), {
     cancelToken: new CancelToken(function executor(cancelFunction) {
         cancel = cancelFunction; // This is where we actually set the cancel variable to something useful
     });
 }).then((response) => {};

cancel(); // When you need to cancel your axios request, you can now call cancel() at any time in your code