API Response always respond with 200 despite server respond with 400 in postman

Question

Each time a make an api request to /api/X it always respond with 200 even when I purposely send a bad request for testing purposes I always get 200. I tried making the api call in postman the backend is working fine and respond with 400. Here is my code:  try {
    const res = await axios({
      method: "GET",
      url: LEADS,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${adminJWT}`,
      },
      data: body,
    });

// WHY IT RETURNS 200 DESPITE SERVER RESPONSE IS 400 ??
    return NextResponse.json({ ...res?.data }, { status: 200 });
  } catch (error) {
    const { status, name, message } = error.response.data.error;

return NextResponse.json({ name, message }, { status });
  }

Shy Albatross · Answer

you're expecting axios to throw on 400, does it do that? docs are pretty bad at explaining that, but my takeaway from docs is that if you don't provide a custom validateStatus then it should behave just like fetch, which is not throw on HTTP errors. Or at least not below 500? I don't know, docs are p. bad.
https://axios-http.com/docs/handling_errors

API Response always respond with 200 despite server respond with 400 in postman

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