Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies or are They Controlling You?

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F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9351-5_6

6. HTTP Requests

Francesco Strazzullo¹  

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

In the previous chapters, you learned to render DOM elements and to react to events from systems or users, but a front-end application feeds on asynchronous data from a server. This chapter aims to show you how to build an HTTP client in a frameworkless way.

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