How do you make an AJAX call?
- Eliot Muir
- Tyler Brown
Owned by Eliot Muir
Just standardize all your application AJAX calls on this:
APIcall("path/to/api", {parameter :"fred", id : 232}, function(X){
// do something with the result.
});The code the function APIcall function is just over a dozen lines and can be found here together with a longer explanation as to why it works.
Here’s another example of using the function in long hand:
function APPcallback(X){
// call back
}
var Data = {};
Data.parameter = "fred";
APIcall(Path, Data, APPcallback);What’s notable is the low cognitive load this puts on the software developer. No having to worry about:
Whether this is a GET or a POST
What format to put the arguments into.
Or how to handle errors.
It’s just JSON in, and JSON out.
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