Learn React with TypeScript 3

Deleting data with fetch

Generally, we delete data via a DELETE HTTP method on a REST API. Let's enter the following in the TypeScript playground:

fetch("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1", {  method: "DELETE"}).then(response => {  console.log(response.status); });

So, we are requesting to delete a post with the DELETE method.

If we run the preceding code, we get 200 output to the console.

So, we've learned how to interact with a RESTful API with the native fetch function. In the next section, we'll look at doing the same with a popular open source library and understanding its benefits over fetch.