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I don't think using HAProxy for calling 3rd party APIs is normal. I don't think there is any issue with either of your current tools, but I would use axios because you can create specialized sub-instances (perfect for APIs!).

const instance = axios.create({
  baseURL: 'some-api-domain.com/api',
  timeout: 1000,
  headers: {'X-Custom-Header': 'foobar'}
});

// every HTTP request made using the instance object
// will include the specified defaults

export default instance

// other file

import someApi from './some-api'

export async function getContacts() {
    const response = await someApi.get("contacts")
    return response.data
}

export async function addContact(data) {
    const response = await someApi.post("contacts", data)
    return response.data
}

export async function getContact(id) {
    const response = await someApi.get(`contacts/${id}`)
    return response.data
}

Axios is isomorphic (works in browser and in serverside), also checkout the middlewares (called interceptors).

I recommend not using fetch because fetch is very low-level and does almost nothing right by default for typical 3rd party JSON APIs. medium.com/@shahata/why-i-wont-be-using-fetch-api…