Making Web Requests and the Fetch API 🐙
Making Web Requests and the Fetch API 🐙
When we think of single page apps, one of their defining characteristics is their really cool ability to update parts of their page either automatically or through some interaction by you:
What you won’t see are the traditional page navigations where your entire screen is torn down and redrawn in a very jolting and non-continuous way. Core to pulling all of this off is this idea of web requests and us getting data (and UI) asynchronously and updating our DOM with it.
In the Making HTTP/Web Requests article, we take a glance at what web requests are and how to make them ourselves in JavaScript using the fetch API:
The fetch API was one of the first APIs introduced in the more recent versions of JavaScript (aka ES6) that were fully asynchronous and promises based. Don’t worry if this last sentence isn’t fully clear. We’ll dive deeper into almost every word there in the future. The important detail is that they help our fetch API work really well in getting us data from any supported external location.
Video Version
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Till Next Time
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