Re: JavaScript fetch v xmlhttprequest -- WEB400

Subject: Re: JavaScript fetch v xmlhttprequest
From: Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 07:35:46 -0600
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Yep...and a useful thing. It isn't really synchronous but the implementation, which uses a Promise, makes it "work" like a synchronous call with the ".then" method (which I think is just a callback).

Most browsers support it.

Pete Helgren
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On 1/27/2019 7:17 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

Is Javascript's fetch a thing? Is this really a new and improved way to deal with synchronous needs?

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