Learn React with TypeScript 3

Basic GET request

Let's open up the TypeScript playground and enter the following:

fetch("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts")  .then(response => response.json())  .then(data => console.log(data));

Here are some key points:

• The first parameter in the fetch function is the URL for the request
• fetch is a promised-based function
• The first then method handles the response
• The second then method handles when the body has been parsed as JSON

If we run the code, we should see an array of posts output to the console: