make N retries to API call before catch error

maxRetries.js

// demo

var _requestsCount = 6

const fetchF = url => {
  // _requestsCount--
  console.log('fake request %d', _requestsCount)
  if (_requestsCount--) return Promise.reject(new Error('ololo'))
  return Promise.resolve('data')
}

function makeRequest (url, retries = 5) {
  return fetchF(url).catch(error => {
    if (retries--) return makeRequest(url, retries)
    return error
  })
}

makeRequest()
  .then(res => console.log('success', res))
  .catch(err => console.log('error', err))