Code Refactor Catch-All

[jaffrepaul]

Things that could be refactored:

• move native fetch reqs to axios for consistency
• add response & error handling to API calls

[jaffrepaul]

@alexanderlukens @bryangxyz @iamkennytso let's keep a list of things we could refactor so we can remove code comments about that and clean things up. Add more items to the description...

[iamkennytso]

I can work on this by actually commenting my code.