Javascript ES6 Get JSON from URL (no jQuery)

Question

I was wondering if there's any ES6 way of getting json or other data from a url.

jQuery GET and Ajax calls are very common but I don't want to use jQuery in this one.

A typical call would look like this:

var root = 'http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com';

$.ajax({
  url: root + '/posts/1',
  method: 'GET'
}).then(function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});

or without jQuery something like this:

function loadXMLDoc() {
    var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE ) {
           if (xmlhttp.status == 200) {
               document.getElementById("myDiv").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
           }
           else if (xmlhttp.status == 400) {
              alert('There was an error 400');
           }
           else {
               alert('something else other than 200 was returned');
           }
        }
    };

    xmlhttp.open("GET", "ajax_info.txt", true);
    xmlhttp.send();
}

My question is...Is there any new ways of doing this ... for example ES6 or is it still the same way?

Answer 1

FETCH API

Example:

// url (required), options (optional)
fetch('https://davidwalsh.name/some/url', {
    method: 'get'
}).then(function(response) {

}).catch(function(err) {
    // Error :(
});

For more information:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API