Axios Request Retry function - ES7 implementation of axios request retry

axiosRetry.js

/**
Asynchronous Recursive Request retry with Axios
Author: Dimosthenis Kalaitzis <[email protected]>
Requires Axios 
Throws error after failing all available attempts
@param requestParams AxiosRequestOptions
@param attempts number
*/
async sendRequest(requestParams, attempts = 0) {

    let maximumTimeouts = 20; //Maximum attempts, don't set too high or you may risk high memory usage
    let minimumWaitBeforeTimeout = 50; //In milliseconds
    let waitBeforeTimeoutVariation = 1000; //In milliseconds

    //Timeout Implementation
    const timeout = ms => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms));

    //Attempt handling - don't forget to wrap in try catch to catch the error
    attempts++;
    if (attempts > maximumTimeouts) throw new Error("Request failed after retrying");

    console.log("Attempt #" + attempts);

    try {

        if (attempts > 1) { //No reason to wait before send on the first try
            await timeout(Math.random() * waitBeforeTimeoutVariation + minimumWaitBeforeTimeout);
        }

        let response = await axios.request(requestParams);

        return response;
    }
    catch (err) { //Axios throws an error on all non-200 code responses, so we handle them here
        return await this.sendRequest(url, attempts);
    }
}