JavaScript Fundamentals: Fetching Data from a server

Timothy Robards
ITNEXT
Published in
7 min readJul 29, 2019

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In this article, we’ll be looking at how we can go about retrieving data from a server. Modern websites and applications need to be able to do this seamlessly — that is, update sections of a web page without needing to reload the entire page. We’ll be looking at two technologies that make this possible: XMLHttpRequest and the Fetch API.

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