Feature Request: convenience methods to get `data` directly from response

Add convenience methods to return data directly instead of the whole response object

99% of the time I’m using axios, I’m only interested in the data part of the response, and I need to do destructuring to get it out of the response object. It’d be great if I can use another method that will return data only. This is more useful especially when you want to use another variable name for data and have to use named destructuring. This can be done by adding corresponding methods that return data only, eg:

axios(config) -> axios.data(config)
axios.request(config) -> axios.requestData(config)
axios.get(url[, config]) -> axios.getData(url[, config])
axios.post(url[, data[, config]]) -> axios.postData(url[, data[, config]])

example for current state:

const { data } = await axios.get(url)
// or 
const { data: result } = await axios.get(url)

suggested improvement:

const data = await axios.getData(url)
// or
const result = await axios.getData(url)

P.S. I’d love to help in the implementation if it’s approved

[Gaafar]

I don’t understand why error handling is different for axios.getData than it is for axios.get. Can you explain with a code example maybe?

[LeCoupa]

What about something like Nuxt is doing with $get, $post or $put?

https://axios.nuxtjs.org/usage.html#shortcuts