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JavaScript What is the Fetch API?

Posted by Stefan Cutajar
Stefan Cutajar
7,747 Points

Should you still learn the Jquery part to make data requests (the final part of AJAX basics course) ?

Is this the way to do it these days or there will be certain occasions that jquery will still be in handy. I'm not trying to take shortcuts or anything like that but I'd rather learn something more useful in my free time than an obsolete technology

5 Answers

kevinardo
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kevinardo
Treehouse Project Reviewer

I think that focusing on learning the Fetch API is enough these days.

Roger Hwang
Roger Hwang
3,851 Points
Roger Hwang
Roger Hwang
3,851 Points

Am also curious about this question. Why not just use Fetch API with the aforementioned benefits?

Emily Rodriguez
Emily Rodriguez
12,572 Points
Emily Rodriguez
Emily Rodriguez
12,572 Points

Personally I wouldn't bother with it if you're not already using jQuery in a project. There's nothing jQuery can do that you can't do in vanilla JS.

michaeldavies3
michaeldavies3
23,152 Points
michaeldavies3
michaeldavies3
23,152 Points

As in the video, and still now, IE doesn't support the Fetch API at all (incl IE 11)

https://caniuse.com/#feat=fetch

Also, XHR and jQuery aren't that hard to learn, and will help you to understand the mechanics of how async code works. The Dave McFarland course on this is great, and not so long. My two cents are that its worth learning all of them.

Johan Uribe
Johan Uribe
2,677 Points
Johan Uribe
Johan Uribe
2,677 Points

Same question here.