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Making HTTP/Web Requests in JavaScript

In this Chapter

  • Learn the basics of a web request

  • Learn how to use both the Fetch API and the more traditional XMLHttpRequest approach

As you probably know very well by now, the Internet is made up of a bunch of interconnected computers called servers. When you are surfing the web and navigating between web pages, what you are really doing is telling your browser to request information from any of these servers. It kinda looks like this: Your browser sends a request, waits awkwardly for the server to respond to the request, and (once the server responds) processes the request. All of this communication is made possible because of something known as the HTTP protocol.

The HTTP protocol provides a ...

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