Axios is a popular, promise-based HTTP client that sports an easy-to-use API and can be used in both the browser and Node.js. Making HTTP requests to fetch or save data is one of the most common tasks a client-side JavaScript application will need to do. Third-party libraries — especially jQuery — have long been a ...
In this article, we’ll learn what the new Fetch API looks like, what problems it solves, and the most practical way to retrieve remote data inside your web page using the fetch() function. For years, XMLHttpRequest has been web developers’ trusted sidekick. Whether directly or under the hood, XMLHttpRequest has ena...
This article demonstrates how you implement a local cache of fetched requests so that if done repeatedly it reads from session storage instead. The advantage of this is that you don’t need to have custom code for each resource you want cached. Follow along if you want to look really cool at your next JavaScript d...
You can’t get far as a JavaScript programmer without learning about functions and objects, and when used together, they are the building blocks we need to get started with a powerful object paradigm called composition. Today we’ll look at some idiomatic patterns for using factory functions to compose functi...
ECMAScript 6 (a.k.a. ECMAScript 2015 or ES6) brings a number of new features to JavaScript which will make the language a good fit for large applications. One of these features is better support for asynchronous programming using promises and generators. Another is the addition of the Fetch API which aims to replace XM...
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