Testing · Middle · Question 17 of 75

Why is MSW often preferred over mocking `fetch`/`axios` directly?

✓Correct answer: Tests don't depend on which HTTP client is used, and the real request code (URLs, headers, parsing) is exercised
2MSW is faster than any mock
3Mocking fetch is not possible in Node.js

Explanation

Switching from axios to fetch doesn't break tests that mock at the network level.

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