What Is Fetch API in JavaScript? How to Use It (with Examples)
Have you ever wished your computer could do the heavy lifting for you? Like downloading a whole website’s worth of data so you can work on it offline. Sure, your web browser comes with its download feature, but that only grabs one page at a time – leaving out any hyperlinks pointing to other pages within the site itself. That means restarting the entire process all over again and again. Wouldn’t it be great if there was an easier way?
Luckily, there’s an easier way. With the Fetch API in JavaScript, you can tell your computer to get whatever website or file you need and bring it back to you. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Fetch API in several ways. We’ll also give some examples of when it might come in handy.
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