JSON improvements: throw if JSON parsing failed; number, boolean can be passed directly as payload for encoding to JSON #2613, #61, #907 by DigitalBrainJS · Pull Request #3688 · axios/axios
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support for primitive types to be converted to JSON if the request Content-Type is application/json (under nodejs we get an error) (Post a number as a JSON #2613);
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