Four Ways To Make An API Calls In Javascript

Hello developers!! In this post, we'll discuss various ways to make an API call for your next project.

🔎 XML HTTP Request

• All modern browsers support the XMLHttpRequest object to request data from a server.
• It works on the oldest browsers as well as on new ones.
• It was deprecated in ES6 but is still widely used.

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'https://api.github.com/users/anuradha9712');
request.send();
request.onload = ()=>{
    console.log(JSON.parse(request.response));
}

🔎 Fetch

• The Fetch API provides an interface for fetching resources (including across the network) in an asynchronous manner.
• It returns a Promise
• It is an object which contains a single value either a Response or an Error that occurred.
• .then() tells the program what to do once Promise is completed.

fetch('https://api.github.com/users/anuradha9712')
.then(response =>{
    return response.json();
}).then(data =>{
    console.log(data);
})

🔎 Axios

• It is an open-source library for making HTTP requests.
• It works on both Browsers and Node js
• It can be included in an HTML file by using an external CDN
• It also returns promises like fetch API

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/axios/dist/axios.min.js"></script>

axios.get('https://api.github.com/users/anuradha9712')
.then(response =>{
    console.log(response.data)
})

🔎 jQuery AJAX

• It performs asynchronous HTTP requests.
• Uses $.ajax() method to make the requests.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

$(document).ready(function(){
    $.ajax({
        url: "https://api.github.com/users/anuradha9712",
        type: "GET",
        success: function(result){
            console.log(result);
        }
    })
})

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Comments

[Amin]

So really two ways then, isn't it?

[Ian Wijma]

I personally don't think its a great idea to include jQuery JUST for $.ajax, if you really want to use a library I'd recommend axios, like you described.