The Fetch API provides an interface for fetching resources (including across the network). It will seem familiar to anyone who has used XMLHttpRequest, but the new API provides a more powerful and flexible feature set.

• ​https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch​

Using in Browsers

Not supported on all browsers. You can polyfill using watchwg-fetch

​https://npmcompare.com/compare/node-fetch,whatwg-fetch​

Using in Node.js

• ​https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch​

yarn add node-fetch

Importing:

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

If you use webpack, the following will work locally, but fail when deployed in webpack.

import * as fetch from 'node-fetch';

Text:

const response = await fetch(url);
console.log(response);
const text = await response.text();

response:

{
  ok true,
  status: 200,
  ...
}

JSON:

const response = await fetch(url);
const json = await response.json();

Errors Handling

• No errors are thrown.

• No need for try/catch

const response = await fetch(url);
console.log(response);
if (!response.ok) {
  ...
}

response:

{
  ok false,
  status: 404,
}