Introduction to the JavaScript Fetch API | Linux Today

Introduction to the JavaScript Fetch API

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Egidio Docile
Mar 27, 2020

Compared to XMLHttpRequest and the libraries built around it, like JQuery.ajax, the fetch API defines a more modern and cleaner way of performing asynchronous requests, based on the use of promises. In this article we will see some of the interfaces provided by the API, like Request and Response, and we will learn how to use the fetch method to perform various types of asynchronous requests.

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