Making AJAX requests to a REST API using vanilla JavaScript and XHR

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2 up and 0 down, posted by salvietta 1451 days ago 3 comments

tracker1 1451 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

Unless you need to support IE11, and most of us shouldn't be at this point.  Just use fetch.

It's a really simple API that is available pretty much everywhere, even Deno, and if you're using node, just polyfill with node-fetch.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API
2. https://caniuse.com/fetch

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pselviakcay 1450 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

use fetch even if you need to support IE11, it's worth the polyfill IMO

fetch(someUrl).then(resp => resp.json()).then(data => doSomethingWith(data))

the end.

tracker1 1449 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

Yeah... for about the past 2 years, mostly been on internalized apps so stopped using most polyfils at that point.  Generally only support browsers with fetch and async function support, which is everything that's seen an update since late 2017.

I agree that if I supported IE11, would probably polyfill for fetch, but at this point, I'm starting to lean towards just using ecmascript modules directly in the browser for anything public facing, which definitely excludes IE11.