Frontend API Querying Without Fetch or XHR

Once upon a time, people used XHR . Everyone today (should) uses the fetch API, native to JavaScript. But do you know about the third way to query data?

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Less than twenty years ago, developers used the XHR request, either in vanilla JavaScript, or through jQuery ajax() method.

Then, EMCAScript 2015 came out and introduces fetch and its promise-based logic. Querying data with it improved a lot developer experience.

With modern JS came Angular, then React and Vue, to quote the main frameworks used today, we all use fetch under a layer of abstraction.

Fetching data is easy as long as you understand a minimum how promises work.

However, I’ll show you ⏩ the steps to achieve API querying without those solutions ⏪.