I will be sharing bite sized learnings about JavaScript regularly in this series. We'll cover JS fundamentals, browsers, DOM, system design, domain architecture and frameworks.
Fetch is an interface for making an AJAX request in JavaScript. It is implemented widely by modern browsers and is used to call an API.
const promise = fetch(url, [options])
Calling fetch returns a promise, with a Response object. The promise is rejected if there is a network error, and it's resolved if there is no problem connecting to the server and the server responded a status code. This status code could be 200s, 400s or 500s.
A sample FETCH request -
fetch(url)
.then(response => response.json())
.catch(err => console.log(err))
The request is sent as a GET by default. To send a POST / PATCH / DELETE / PUT you can use the method property as part of options parameter. Some other possible values options can take -
method: such as GET, POST, PATCHheaders: Headers objectmode: such ascors,no-cors,same-origincache: cache mode for requestcredentialsbody
Check out the full list of available options here
Example usage:
This example demonstrates the usage of fetch to call an API and to get a list of git repositories.
const url = 'https://api.github.com/users/shrutikapoor08/repos';
fetch(url)
.then(response => response.json())
.then(repos => {
const reposList = repos.map(repo => repo.name);
console.log(reposList);
})
.catch(err => console.log(err))
To send a POST request, here's how the method parameter can be used with async / await syntax.
const params = {
id: 123
}
const response = await fetch('url', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify(params)
});
const data = await response.json();