Javascript Fetch API: The XMLHttpRequest evolution

Francisco Igor
4 min readSep 14, 2019

The Javascript Fetch API is the current standard to make asynchronous HTTP Requests. To anyone who used XMLHttpRequest and Jquery.ajax(), this new API provides more powerful and flexible features.

The main features of the Javascript Fetch API are:

  • Generic definition of Request and Response objects
  • More control over request…

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Francisco Igor

Programming from the past century. Worked with many programming languages and software development tools for desktop, web and mobile. https://fraigo.github.io/